| Both products had suddenly become commoditised, barriers to entry were very low, and prices were dropping dramatically. |
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| At the same time, basic wireless technology is becoming commoditized, which lowers barriers to entry for newcomers, especially from Asia. |
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| We hear a lot about barriers to entry and how those insuperable walls can be a natural protection for incumbent companies. |
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| However, the barriers to entry aren't large, and new companies have come into being to take the slack. |
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| At the same time, if barriers to entry are made too high, the U. S. travel and tourism sectors could suffer as well. |
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| Therefore, barriers to entry have fallen, and the market has become more contestable. |
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| Fifthly, the proposal seeks to amend provisions concerning authorisation and licensing to reduce unjustified barriers to entry. |
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| With few barriers to entry, and the prospect of attractive returns, world production increased significantly during this period. |
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| Each level determines the particular entry requirements as well as the barriers to entry. |
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| This is the ankle-biter end of the web hosting business, where there are few barriers to entry. |
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| The broadcast flag's purpose is to choke off innovation and raise barriers to entry into the DTV equipment market. |
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| If barriers to entry are high, this can be a sign of a competition problem in a particular market. |
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| But when it came to the seven identified sites with ISIS affiliations, the Citizen Lab found no barriers to entry. |
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| Becoming a train driver means hurdling remarkable barriers to entry, which helps keep wages high. |
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| European regulated markets are distinguished by their lack of barriers to entry, which is consistent with the functioning of the single market. |
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| With Google now building a Linux-based netbook OS of its own, those last barriers to entry will be removed. |
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| Although they give lip service to accepting new members, the barriers to entry are high. |
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| However, more action is needed to remove barriers to entry and to ensure a proper functioning of markets, including for the network industries. |
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| On the positive side of the ledger, as the barriers to entry have been reduced, more opinions are available than ever before. |
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| Concerning APU's for LCA, the barriers to entry for the above mentioned companies would be as important as for 'de novo' entry. |
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| With the exception of such KIBS areas as architecture or legal consulting, there are few formal barriers to entry. |
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| What do you see as the possible barriers to entry into the workforce that women and new immigrants may face in the construction industry? |
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| Certainly, raising barriers to entry may weed out the most dilettantish healers. |
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| It creates some barriers to entry, with the additional costs of large transportation distances in the Yukon. |
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| Our strategy is to concentrate our operations in high growth, supply-constrained markets that have high barriers to entry and attractive tenant bases. |
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| On the one hand, for Japanese companies looking for diversification, barriers to entry are low and many big players have recently set foot in the cosmetic market. |
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| Most of these companies in your fund are global leaders in their markets and usually have significant competitive advantages, or operate in businesses where the barriers to entry are huge. |
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| Your company has intellectual property, substantial proprietary knowledge, and technology ownership that provide significant barriers to entry as well as freedom to operate within the targeted vertical sector. |
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| This new marketplace presents low economic barriers to entry, but uncertainty about remedies when electronic deals go bad may impede full realization of the Internet's potential. |
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| For example, they were born into a society where unprecedented numbers of women are working for pay outside the home and barriers to entry into many professions have been falling away. |
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| The immutability of geography, scale economies and high sunk costs, as well as technological demands, have created high barriers to entry in the mining sector and integrated value chains under TNC governance. |
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| Therefore, the existence of many consolidators on the United Kingdom market significantly lowers the barriers to entry that third country PPOs would have to overcome. |
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| Pipelining of natural gas is a necessary service, but because the construction of major pipelines and associated facilities can take many years and be extremely costly, there can be significant economic barriers to entry. |
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| Liberalised markets mean few barriers to entry. |
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| But barriers to entry make markets smaller. |
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| Engine control products display high barriers to entry. |
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| The traditional business model of financial services was characterised by a high level of regulation, a large number of barriers to entry, smaller scale, product focus and control orientation. |
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| Changes in standards and norms are gradual and result in higher standards of security and performance, and thus increase barriers to entry for new market entrants. |
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| They evaluate companies through an entrepreneurial perspective that considers competitiveness, market share, barriers to entry, growth potential and management. |
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| Crew members are particularly frustrated with these barriers to entry. |
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| Other problems include state ownership and interference, which impose high barriers to entry in many areas. |
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| Some of the barriers to entry for entrepreneurs are the economy, debt from schooling, and the challenges of regulatory compliance. |
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| In addition to barriers to entry and competition, barriers to exit may be a source of market power. |
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| And there are almost no barriers to entry, making it easy to spread information quickly. |
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| One of the abiding notions in the auto industry today is that there are significant barriers to entry. |
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| These competitors have the capital and cost structure to overcome barriers to entry. |
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| Second, increasing the required semester hours will increase the barriers to entry and thus reduce the supply of accountants. |
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| An undesirably brief discussion of barriers to entry follows, and then Hovenkamp turns to the meat of the chapter. |
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| Also, industry consolidation has created a duopolistic environment aiding pricing power, reducing capacity expansion, and erecting effective barriers to entry. |
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| This is likely to happen when a market's barriers to entry are low. |
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| The rent seekers are a cartel, as are the rent granters, and they use barriers to entry to maintain a continuing stream of benefits to them from the masses. |
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| In general, the higher the barriers to entry, the greater potential for profits, since you can exclude new individuals or companies from becoming your competitors. |
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| Although grammar schools are rare, some of them are highly selective and state funded boarding schools require substantial fees, which may introduce further barriers to entry. |
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| Microsoft also today announced that credit cards will no longer be required to create an account on Xbox Live for Xbox 360, removing one of the biggest barriers to entry. |
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| Barriers to entry into the French political elite are exceptionally high. |
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