Abstract (Translated):
Historically consolidated as the centre of the Brazilian industrialization process, the State of São Paulo, and particularly its metropolitan homonymous region, observed a relative loss of participation in the industrial product from the 1970s. Factors such as the diseconomies of agglomeration manifested in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo and the direct public investments and fiscal incentives in economically lagging regions were relevant in this process. However, the 'debt crack' in the 1980s and the redefinition of the state's role since the 1990s implicates new challenges for regional development and industry dynamics, which atrophied its territorial links and weakened the process of productive distribution lauched in the previous decade. The formation of a preferential area of industrial concentration, known as the industrial polygon, is tried based on the locational decisions of the industry based in the MRSP through the Rais microdata, thus indicating the tendencies of occupation of the sector from its center-radial.