By contrast, if the industry were open to new players, potential entrants, with everything to gain and little to lose, would have a strong incentive to unleash the waves of “creative destruction” that Schumpeter thought so essential to human progress. In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents – those constantly striving for betterment – have any hope of surviving.
相反，如果行业对新来者和潜在进入者开放，嬴则大赢，输无可输，则会产生引来“创造性破坏”浪潮的强大激励。熊彼特认为“创造性破坏”是人类进步的源泉。在竞争性行业中，只有执着的先入者——持续地追求改善者——才有希望生存。