Methods and Design
After discussing the current development of SPI, its industrial structure by literature review, this study applied the Delphi Method to explore the relevant strategies for the future development and analyze the feasibility of the future development of the SPI.
The Delphi Method is also known as the expert judgment method. With Taiwan’s export processing zone (EPZ) as the major research subjects, the method can be divided into two stages: 1) questionnaire survey: with anonymous and iterative feedback to provide participating scholars and researchers with opportunities of communicating professional knowledge to reduce personal bias and reach consensus; 2) statistical analysis of the feedbacks of scholars and experts to remove the randomly caused errors as well as the written reports and research conclusions provided by the researchers.