Using cluster analysis to the classification of electronic business models

ビジネスモデル特許の特徴とその分類

Using cluster analysis to the classification of electronic business models

Creators Shintani Koichi

Recently, patents for electonic business model are growing rapidly. It relates that personal computers and internet are popularized in our life. Business model produces a profit, and gives business chance for small companies with ideas of business form. Inventors who produce a new business model for patent, must research if similar types are existing, but this task is a full of toil. Thus, inventors need an efficient researching method. In this paper, existing patents for electonic business model are classified by Cluster analysis.

[ISSN]0387-9232

[NCID]AN00031668