“…This will challenge the current government's perspective that leads to implementing the same strategies for both creative and traditional cultural industries (Fahmi et al, 2015). This paper complements the existing publications on the regional locational patterns of creative industries, which are mostly descriptive (e.g., Boix, Lazzeretti, Capone, De Propris, & Sánchez, 2013;Power, 2002;Pratt, 2004) but much less focussed on explaining factors that determine the pattern (e.g., Lazzeretti, Capone, & Boix, 2012). In order to achieve the aim of this paper, we identify the characteristics of regions where these industries are clustered, and reflect these findings on the current conceptual and empirical contributions on this issue.…”