Entrepreneurship: logistics and regional mapping reduce the risk of investiments and promote the development of poles of competition and value generation in the state of São Paulo, Brazil – Local Productive Systems (LPS ́S): factoral analysis as a tool for the study of local productive groupings

This study aims at comparing, from different periods, the integration and the productive flexibility of some regions of the State of Sao Paulo, having in view better regionalization of local business logistics, and the design of productive cooperation network and regional strategic poles for development, through the historic-strategic course of entrepreneurship. Our investigation was chronological, selecting towns along the old axes of railway transport of the State of Sao Paulo, which were the first drivers of regional progress. We analyzed the towns factorially, through the study of the degree of municipal development during three successive decades – 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s – in order that we can designate the strategic direction that is derived from each town's dynamic evolution, forming poles of regional and entrepreneurial attraction. The agglomerations of businesses and institutions into clusters or local