“…Still, the narrative that Open Creative Labs provide material and social settings for creativity, creative work, entrepreneurship, and independent, creativity driven, and craft‐based work has created a somewhat natural link to urban contexts (Fiorentino, ; Gandini, ; Jamal, ; Merkel, ; Schmidt et al, ; Wolf‐Powers et al, ; Wolf‐Powers et al, ). The existing body of literature either builds on case‐study designs that apply research on single labs in urban environments (e.g., Toombs & Bardzell, ; Williams & Hall, ), on various labs within a particular metropolitan region (e.g., Capdevila, ; Lin, ), or research that compares a limited number of cities (e.g., Merkel, ; Wolf‐Powers et al, ). A systematic comparison across macroregions, such as the European Union, or across several countries, is still lacking.…”