  The paper seeks to interpret the interface between innovation, industry and
urban business agglomeration, by trying to understand how local/regional
entrepreneurs and social agents use the forces of agglomeration to organize
productive activities with a view to achieving greater competitiveness and
strategic advantages. There are many territorial manifestations that
materialize from this new reality and the text seeks to propose a reading of
its characteristics based on what we call "productive spatial configurations",
which represent the specific functioning of a certain innovative production
process and its territorial impact. To illustrate this approach, we take as an
example a case study that illustrates how productive spatial configurations
manifest themselves through the revitalization of an industrial economy that
incorporates innovative efforts, whether technological, process or
organizational. This is the localized industrial system (LIS) of clothing and
apparel in Fortaleza, Cear\'a state, Brazil, which reveals an industrial
experience of resistance with significant organizational innovation in the
production and distribution processes of clothing. The main objective of the
proposal is to organize theoretical and empirical tools that will allow us to
read the combination of economic, social and political variables in spaces
where collaborative networks of companies, service centers and public
institutions flourish, in the context of various industrial production
processes. This could point to the progress we need to overcome the many false
controversies on the subject.
