At the same time, while barriers to entry are rising, the network effects that the biggest companies have aren't as strong as they used to be in the console era where relationships with retailers and distributors mattered.
Drugmakers often argue that because of increasing demands for data by regulators, the size and duration of clinical trials has risen steeply, delaying the entry of drugs to the market and bumping up their R&D spending.
But as this special report has argued, all Asian firms will be affected by a range of important trends: the impact of higher labour costs in China and ageing in East Asia; higher consumer expectations; the disruptive power of the internet; and the rising barriers to entry in many global industries as they become ever more concentrated.
Mr Gates was the only career officer in CIA history to rise from an entry-level position to lead the agency.
"But all of us will win -- because every year we see the quality of the entries rising, and rising".
"What you get is this constantly rising entry of women into the labor force for a multiplicity of reasons, not the least being the shift to a service economy and to office work that women can do as easily as men," Ms. Goldin said.
The photographs of the founding father's iconically American home, again reproduced to scale in a cut-and-pasted model, feature a rising tide of resin in the entry hall, below the famous cannonball clock, like a spreading stain upon history and Jefferson's legacy as an enlightened man.
But, I think after a while, the idea rose that we should explain the entry.
Many Latinos have been inspired by Mr. Bustamante's rise from rural California, still the entry point for numerous newcomers, and remain grateful for his firm stance against Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot measure, later struck down by the courts, that would have restricted public services for illegal immigrants.
The listing also shows that the stock market has been kind to the billionaires: where last year, a fortune of $950m was enough to get you into the top 400, the entry price has risen again to $1bn.
