which industries have high barriers to entry 
industries requiring heavy regulation or high upfront capital often have the highest barriers to entry telecommunications transport i e car or airplane casinos parcel delivery services pharmaceutical electronics oil and gas and financial services often all require substantial initial investments each of those industries is also heavily regulated or requires substantial oversight from governing bodies the bottom linethere are many aspects of many industries that prevent companies from entering into a market these barriers to entry may be set by government policy created due to high financial cost or occur naturally due to the industry itself for companies already within the industry barriers to entry protects against competition easily stealing market share for companies seeking entry it ll be a larger hurdle trying to overcome the hurdles preventing easy access into an industry 