The Hungarian companies adapted themselves to the changing conditions – they survived changes of the market and owners –, they kept regenerating, growing, and at the same time, they cut back the former research institutions, departments and they didn’t even make use of the knowledge of the existing research yards. For this reason, Hungarian enterprises are not considered to be innovative. The suspicion that one reason for this contradiction is that the different participants do not agree in the interpretation of innovation, arises inevitably.