The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related courses, general readers. A list of courses and corresponding programmes in Geography, Planning, Economics and Management will be prepared later.Introduction.- Part I: Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe: General Framework.- Part II: Policies and Regional Upgrading in Southern European Regions.- Part III: Within the Box of Regional Upgrading: Economic Base, Regional Upgrading, Human Capital, Over Education Migration, Labour Market, FDI.- Part IV: Out of the Box Discussion: Theories and Empirical Evidence.- Part V: Postcript.
Madalena Fonseca is a Geographer and Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Department of Geography. She holds a PhD in Economic Geography. Currently, she is the General Secretary of the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education - A3ES (Lisboa). Her main research topics are currently linked with higher education and human capital: offer and demand of higher education, access, the Portuguese higher education system, higher education and regional development and quality assurance. She is a member of the Board of the European Consortium for Accreditation ECA (The Hague) and the international expert for international accreditations of the German agency ZEVA (Hannover). She takes part in two Erasmus+ research projects on strategic partnerships for higher education. She is the author and co-author of a large number of papers and chapters of books in the field of economic geography and regional development.
Ugo Fratesi> is Associate Professor of Regional Economics at Politecnil"
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