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The first stage in our research mainly focuses on the LCD firms' communication
network; the second stage, the network boundary will be extended to institutions in
STSP and even to optoelectronics firms of STSP. The purposes of this extension are
to see if firms' network position variable changed with extended network boundary,
and see if the changed network position variables' effect on innovation
performance. Accordingly, we design four kinds of communication network based
on three kinds of relationships and three groups of actors. They are LCD network
(LCDNet), LCD network with institutions (LCD-InstNet), collaborative network
(ColNet), and the whole optoelectronics network in STSP (OptoNet). In a word,
LCDNet contains only LCD firms and their vertical collaborative relationships.
LCD-InstNet contains LCD firms and related institutions, and the vertical and
assistant relationships among them. ColNet contains all actors and relationships
except horizontal competitor relationship. OptoNet contains all actors which
include cooperators, competitors, and institutions and theirs relationships.
Fig. 1
Research structure
4 Empirical Analysis and Discussion
4.1 Hypotheses Prove for First Stage
In this section we mainly discuss our hypothesis 1 to 6, and conduct testing.
Regression analysis are mainly based on the linear relation of valuables, and go a
step further predict relationships between variables. In Table 2, we can figure the
relations among those hypothesis variables, and the means and sum of square of
each variable. Moreover, Table 3 shows the correlation between variables and
significant differences.
4.1.1 Network Competence Related Hypothesis Proof (H1~H3)
The influence of a company's network competence on its network position,
innovation performance, absorptive capacity as shown in Table 4. The results of the
regression analysis show that there is respectively a significant and positive
correlation between them. If a company possesses higher networking capacity, it
would positively influence its position in the network because networking
competence is connected with other partnership or level of communication.
