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5.3 Limitations and Outlook
Though the sample of LCD firms is enough (86%), return rate of other firms in
optoelectronics industry is quite low (38%). It might result in statistical bias, such as
the sample is less than 30. Besides, the measure of innovation performance is
consists of three items, and respondents were asked to assess these items by their
subjective opinions. It might also make our results bias. Moreover, to develop
objective index to measure network competence and absorptive capacity in the
future will be strongly commended.
In social network studies, relationships are usually specific to a particular
domain. Researchers usually look at board ties, business ties, and etc. In this
research, the main efforts only focus on communication relationship with
collaboration, competition, and institutions. Maybe other types of relationships
also have influence on innovation performance.
Future research should extend network scope. For example, future research
could survey optoelectronics industry of different science park, industry, and even a
country to examine effect on several subnetworks. Besides, future research should
discuss actor's attributes (e.g. innovativeness) and network features at the same
time and the interaction effect between them.
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