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The research scope in this study includes optoelectronics industry, especially LCD firms, and other complementary institutions in STSP. The purposes of this study are mainly to describe supply chain relationships networks of opto-electronics industry in STSP as fully as possible, tease out the prominent patterns in such networks, and discover what effects these relationships and networks have on organizations performance. In this regard, this research was conducted into two stages. In the first stage, some hypotheses (if some variables, for example network competence, network position and absorptive capacity, have significant effects on the innovation performance) will be verified through SPSS. We also expect to examine if the “network position” and “absorptive capacity” to the innovation performance has a meditative effect or not, and if they have significant influences on innovation performance. The second stage we adopted SNA to analyse further how the “network position” (such as direct ties, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, coreness, and structural holes etc.) affect innovation performance.
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LEE, TL. (2010). Network Analysis of Opto-Electronics Industry Cluster: A Case of Taiwan. In: Ting, IH., Wu, HJ., Ho, TH. (eds) Mining and Analyzing Social Networks. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13422-7_10
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