Western countries were the first colonialists? Britain may have industrialised 'first', but its first-mover advantage was more down to sitting on comparably huge coal reserves than anything else.

Elsewise, the Chinese dominance of the global tea trade didn't last much longer after the first tea plants were smuggled out and the Indian tea trade started up.

I'm not sure I am underestimating head starts here. All it would take is for one other country to open up to one monied and eager corporation and poof, first mover advantage, gone.