Funnily enough, the automobile industry is one of them. The Locomotives on Highways Act predated the car by decades in the UK, and its regulations were extremely onerous. The relaxation of speed limits from 4mph to 14mph and removing of the need for a human escort on foot helped, but we had functioning automobile manufacturing in the UK before then. The speed limit on UK roads was 20mph or lower until the 1930s, and Britons built a thriving domestic car manufacturing industry and even broke land speed records several times in that period.

(Similarly, and less comically in retrospect, crash testing regimes resulted in a lot of safety improvements that would have been unlikely as a result of purely commercial considerations)