本研究利用2007到2011年間各接受育成之廠商經營投入與產出績效資料，採用非平衡縱橫資料迴歸模型，來探討影響台灣進駐育成中心廠商績效之因素。本研究結果為系統性影響確實存在於不同的產業類型、培育領域與育成中心類型中，因而得出能有效提升進駐廠商績效的可能性如下：1.進駐廠商應與學校型育成中心簽立較長期之合約；2.北部廠商應注意其與學校型育成中心間之知識外溢重疊；3.製造業廠商應注意母公司所帶來的組織僵化；4.製造業與機械電機領域之廠商應避免跨領域培育；5.較年長且教育程度較高之服務業業主有助於提升廠商績效；6.機械電機領域之廠商適合使其於育成中心受益時間加長。藉此增加進駐廠商的績效。

This study attempts to investigate the factors affecting the performance of Taiwan’s tenants in incubation over the 2007-2011 period by utilizing an unbalanced panel data regression involving tenants’ inputs and outputs. The empirical findings show that systematic impacts exist in different industry sectors, in different professional fields, and in different types of incubators. Therefore, the findings provide some possible suggestions to effectively elevate the performance of tenants: 1. Tenants should sign contracts with university-based incubators with longer terms. 2. Tenants in Northern Taiwan should avoid knowledge overlap effects with the university-based incubators. 3. Tenants should be aware of the structural inflexibility of the parent company in manufacturing. 4. Tenants in manufacturing and electrical machinery should avoid the interdisciplinary. 5. In the service sector, tenants owners whose are more advanced in age or highly educated performed better in incubation. 6. In the electrical machinery field, tenants should extend the length of the duration of stay. These are helpful suggestions for elevating the performance of tenants in incubation.

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