A study of How to Describe the Difference Quantitatively between Business Models

— feasibility study to use phylogenetic tree-based approach —

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to quantitatively express the differences in business models. As a method, a phylogenetic tree-based approach, which is often used in biological evolution, is employed. In the very simple cases, we success to describe the difference quantitively between business models. In addition, we also report on the characteristics of the phylogenetic tree of the business model, the difference from the creation of the phylogenetic tree of organisms, and the problems when applied to many actual business models.