“…The impacts that creative industries could deliver on economic growth has been addressed by a number of scholars (Cerisola, ; Lee, ; Stam, de Jong, & Marlet, ). More recently, some others have looked at the performance of the sector at both the firm‐level (Castiglione, Infante, & Zieba, ; Kourtit & Nijkamp, ; Pieri & Zaninotto, ) and the regional‐level (Kourtit & Nijkamp, ; Zeng, Hu, & Su, ). The empirical evidence has supported the importance of the sector for the city's socio‐economic development.…”