“…During the 1990s, following the recognition by the United Kingdom government of creative industries as 'central' to the making of its post-industri-al economy, there has occurred a marked upturn in international academic and policy discourse around creative industries (White, 2010;Kong, 2014;Cruz, Teixeira, 2015;Cunningham, Potts, 2015;Jones et al, 2015;Tremblay, 2015;Bialic-Davedra et al, 2016;Lampel, Germain, 2016;Lazzeretti et al, 2017;Mitkus, Maditinos, 2017). Sternberg (2017) maintains that creative segments of economies emerged and subsequently strengthened as a popular target for policy-makers in particular after the publication of Florida's (2002; seminal works on the 'creative class' .…”