Recommendation for future research

This research, however, is a preliminary study, so much future research is needed to refine this research finding in the future. Although questionnaire and descriptive analysis can confirm the relationships between SMEs and accelerator programs, but they do not providing enough evidence on causality; also in this research, we can’t obtain SMEs financial data after participated in accelerator programs. Thus, we can’t do a precise comparison on SMEs performance before and after joined accelerator programs.

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Therefore, future researchers can try to compile more illustrative information and doing further interpretation of data. Future researchers also can try to use different methodology in giving evidence about the effect of Taiwan Accelerator in helping Taiwan SMEs.

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