Conclusion: Summary and Formulation of Hypotheses for Further Research on Democracy, Quality of Democracy in Global Comparison and Democracy as Innovation Enabler

Arguments can be developed that the higher the degrees of economic development are, then the more likely it is that advanced economic development also requires the development of a democracy. In that respect, we can expect certain associations (or also a coevolution) between quality of democracy, knowledge democracy, and knowledge economy. So there is also a type of plausibility for the assertion of “democracy as innovation enabler.” Here, political pluralism and a heterogeneity and diversity of different knowledge and innovation modes should mutually support and reinforce each other. This can point in favor of a coevolution of democracy and a “democracy of knowledge” and of “democracy as innovation enabler”? The diversity (not only political diversity and political pluralism, but also knowledge and innovation diversity) within democracies may feed effectively into the next-generation creations of knowledge production and innovation system evolution, which will be necessary for progress and further advances of knowledge society, knowledge economy, and knowledge democracy in a global format