Stickiness and slipperiness in Istanbul’s old city jewellery cluster: a survival story
研究了产业集群中粘性（稳定）和滑性（流动）两种极端条件如何相互依存、转化，以伊斯坦布尔老城珠宝集群为例，挑战了传统上分开研究这两种条件的观点。
Stickiness and slipperiness are two extreme socio-economic and institutional conditions under which industrial clusters operate. In much of the economic geography literature, these conditions have been investigated separately. This article challenges this conventional view by developing an alternative framework that utilises some of the basic concepts and approaches of evolutionary thinking and dialectic understanding of agglomeration. With the evidence from Istanbul’s old city jewellery cluster, we argue that stickiness and slipperiness are inextricably tied together and the spatial configuration of clusters is the result of a complicated balance between these two. In Istanbul, these twin conditions are complementary and interact allowing the possibility to transform each other. In the course of cluster evolution, the interactions of the opposite trends result in the emergence of new actions, networks and contexts.