Ming-Kuen Chen, Chung-Min Wu, Lee-Shing Chen and Ya-Ping Huang,
It has been decades since the concept of Business Ecosystem appeared. The implications of the concept have experienced some changes due to the development of industrial environments, which is caused by the advancement in technological applications, such as the Internet, cloud computing, big data, mobile and wearable devices, and industrial intelligence. In this context, the evaluation model for a business ecosystem needs adjustment. This study aims to establish a systematic model for the evaluation of a business ecosystem in the current industrial environment. This study explores small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with fuzzy Delphi (FDelphi) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) as its research methods. This study divides the life cycle of the business ecosystem into four stages, namely birth, expansion, leadership, and self-renewal or death. It is hoped that this evaluation model can be useful to enterprises when they assess and utilize the business ecosystem.