In innovation-driven markets, a market share records who is ahead; it does not reveal how hard that firm must work to remain ahead. A dominance assessment should therefore examine the incumbent’s innovation effort and the innovative capabilities of its challengers before treating persistent leadership as evidence of insulation from competition.

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