Is replicability the same as scalability?

Hey everyone. I’m having these few hours on a bus ride and have been pondering on some question for some time. I’m participating in some sort of business training event here in Lithuania. It’s supposed to train me into doing business. Their target is that after this project we’d have as much companies as possible. There are 70 participants, around 15 local angels/coaches and even some well known local tech. companies that are probably fishing for young talent. Also we have visits by Imperial College London professors that are evaluating our workshops and giving us valuable advice. Kinda nice.

Now to the point - we’ve been analyzing and discussing some different business models. One of main points is the scalability of business. Everyone talks about it. It’s always asked about when grinding an idea. Thus comes my problem. In all the cases that we analysed - I didn’t see scalability. I saw replicability. Maybe I had problems communicating the difference, but to me it’s clear. If a business model is scalable we have this single one for all product or service whose ability to provide value is independent of any of the parameters. Now if it is replicable we kind of have different products, that may be very similar, but have a varying parameter in them. For example - language, or location. These are the only ones that come to mind right now and I’m so eager to publish this question, that I can’t think for a while now.