**5. Summary output**

The relationship among quality management, creativity, and innovation has been the subject of three significant conclusions from this study. This is not just due to the theoretical approach, but also because this study's conclusions are the first to be statistically confirmed and show a strong link among quality management, creativity, and innovation.

In this study, an ISO certificate index is used to rank nations based on the number of ISO certificates issued in a country divided by the number of business organizations already operating there during the same period [64, 65].
