Infrastructure assets have traditionally been characterized as long - lived, with high development costs (barriers to entry) and the potential for steady income streams, often linked to inflation. (blackrockblog.com)
She said more established financial companies have long struggled to serve lower - income markets because of high development costs and low profit margins. (entrepreneur.com)
Now a $ 60 billion market for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors, growth of the market has been hampered by high development costs of producing these in animal cell systems, which when factoring in a long period for manufacturing, R&D and clinical trials, may reach around $ 1 billion per each therapeutic candidate. (sciencedaily.com)