This article examines, in the light of the main theories of industrial location, the locational issues concerning technological incubators and high tech firms. First, it touches aspects of the Traditional Theory of Industrial Location and the main theoretical advances in relation to the seminal writings, trying to identify what are the most relevant factors to the creation and the development of high tech firms. Second, it investigates the relation between Brazilian high tech incubators and the milieu where they are found, trying to assess what are the most relevant factors that push the creation process and the development of such businesses. The data presented result from a national survey that included the totality of the high tech incubators in operation in the country and reflect the incubators managers’ point of view regarding the locational aspects of the businesses.
Plant location; business incubator; technology-based firm; milieu of innovation