The Study of Factors affecting Biotechnology Adoption in Taiwan Large Food Manufacturing Company

• Main Authors: Chih-Hao Lin, 林志豪
• Other Authors: Quan-Hua Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10644838049233837766

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 91 === The purpose of the thesis tries to realize the current situation of biotechnology adoption in Taiwan food industry and to investigate the factors affecting biotechnology adoption in food manufacturing company. The data of the research was collected by the questionnaires. The research variables were developed by the ‘innovation adoption’ theory. There are four category variables were determined, such as ‘innovation characteristics’, ‘organization characteristics’, ‘environment characteristics’ and ‘individual characteristics’. We applied the binary logistics regression to examine the four category variables respectively and tried to find out the factor affecting adoption. The data analysis showed that the proportion of adopting biotechnology and the level of the technology was low in Taiwan large food manufacturing company. The major biotechnology adopted by the food companies in Taiwan belongs to the traditional biotechnology. The research also found out that food companies that were bigger in sales or capital were high proportion of adoption. The factors that influenced the adoption significantly in ‘innovation characteristics’ dimension were ‘compatibility’ and ‘intelligence property’. ‘Compatibility’ was positively related to adoption and ‘intelligence property’ was negatively related to adoption. The factors that influenced the adoption significantly in ‘organization characteristics’ dimension were ‘organization size’ and ‘R&D expense’. Both of the two variables were positively related to adoption. The factors that influenced the adoption significantly in ‘environment characteristics’ dimension were ‘government attitudes’ and ‘society acceptance ’. Both of the two variables were positively related to adoption. The factors that influenced the adoption significantly in ‘individual characteristics’ dimension was ‘CEO’s innovation’. The variable was positively related to adoption.