EU leaders (minus the UK) agreed that the single market should aim to minimise competition based on the cheapness and vulnerability of employees.
Biofuels are likely to be cheap to produce, and although modern biofuels based on crop wastes or saltwater agriculture minimise competition with food production, land availability will always impose a natural limit on production.
A clearer delineation between its different activities has to be made in order to minimise competition with other providers of R&D and knowledge intensive business services, and to protect its credibility and impartiality.
Examples include habitat associations, where shared habitat preferences result in repeated associations of particular species [ 3], and interspecific competition, which is thought to discourage the co-occurrence of particular pairs of species and to favour particular combinations of species that minimise competition whilst ensuring efficient resource use [ 6, 11- 13].
In a young colony, the queen minimises reproductive competition from workers by suppressing their egg-laying through physical aggression and pheromones.
Although the similarly sized goldcrest and firecrest are often found together, there are a number of factors that minimise direct competition for food.
These individual differences in social behaviours mean that in a stable, unchanging group, conflict is minimised during competition over a valued resource such as food.
Under the mutation accumulation theory, the persistence of asexual lineages is more problematic unless asexuals are able to minimise the competition with sexuals through high dispersal rates [ 17].
This also leads to an immediately testable prediction from our model: Wild-type cells are not optimised for yield, but for growth rate and it is possible to obtain cells with increased cell yield from artificial evolution experiments designed to avoid (or minimise) cell-cell competition.
The constraints of operating within localised and fixed economic areas and environments may lead to efforts to encourage co-operation and interventions to punish or minimise high levels of competition, particularly those seeking to gain short-term or non-sustainable competitive advantage over other businesses.
