**4. Descriptive Statistics**

The sample consists of 440 small- and medium-sized Hungarian enterprises, with data from Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2012) [24]. The mean enterprise employed 135.52 people and had a turnover of € 68,594.9. The average of enterprise employees, who in 2012 had a tertiary degree, was 1.657.

Table 4 shows the data set characteristics in terms of turnover, size, and percentage of enterprise employees having a tertiary degree. Table 5 displays the innovation types and *control variables*, and Table 6 illustrates the quantity of information sources.



\* Categorical variable, 0 = 0%, 1 = 1–4%, 2 = 5–9%, 3 = 10–24%, 4 = 25–49%, 5 = 50–74%, 6 = 75–100%.


\* Categorical variable, 0 = Domestic, 1 = European, 2 = world market; \*\* Dummy variable, 1 = Yes and 0 = No.

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