Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe and its Regions: The Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe: A General Framework

      • Madalena Fonseca, Ugo Fratesi

      Pages 3-17

   3. Southern Europe at a Glance: Regional Disparities and Human Capital

      • Madalena Fonseca

      Pages 19-54

   4. The Role of Functions in Economic Underperformance of Southern European Regions

      • Ugo Fratesi

      Pages 55-74

3. Regional Upgrading I: Innovation, Productivity, FDI, Infrastructure and Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Do Southern European Regions Really Lag Behind in Their Innovation Trends?

      • Roberta Capello, Camilla Lenzi

      Pages 77-100

   3. Regional Development and Structural Change: The Productivity Paradox of Spanish Peripheral Regions

      • J. Andres Faiña, Jesus Lopez-Rodriguez, Paulino Montes-Solla, Isidoro Romero, Laura Varela-Candamio

      Pages 101-128

   4. Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment in Southern European Periphery

      • Laura Resmini

      Pages 129-149

   5. Regional Economic Development, Human Capital and Transport Infrastructure in Greece: The Role of Geography

      • Vassilis Tselios, Antonis Rovolis, Yannis Psycharis

      Pages 151-174

   6. Globalisation, Delocalisation and Development: Conceptual Framework and Impacts on Southern European Countries

      • Athanasios Kalogeresis

      Pages 175-196

   7. The Impact of Regional and National Policies in the Development of the Italian Mezzogiorno

      • Guido Pellegrini

      Pages 197-212

4. Regional Upgrading II: Human Capital, Education, Labour Market and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. The Role of Education in Regional Labour Markets: Evidence from Two Fragile Economies

      • Enrique López-Bazo, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Elisabet Motellón

      Pages 215-244

   3. Human Capital Formation and the Missing Regional Upgrading in the EU Periphery: The Role of Migration and Education-Job Mismatch

      • Nicola D. Coniglio, Francesco Prota

      Pages 245-264

   4. Ageing and Migration: Some Reflexions on the Effects of the Economic and Financial Crisis on Demographic Trends in Portuguese Regions

      • Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Diogo de Abreu, Alina Esteves

      Pages 265-298

   5. Involving Universities in Regional Upgrading in the Periphery: Lessons from Northern Europe

      • Paul Benneworth, Rómulo Pinheiro

      Pages 299-321

   6. Higher Education, Human Capital, and Regional Dynamics in Southern Europe

      • Ricardo Biscaia, Pedro Teixeira, Vera Rocha, Margarida Fonseca Cardoso

      Pages 323-344

5. Postscript

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 345-345

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   2. Implications for European Economic Integration After the Brexit

      • Alberto Amaral

      Pages 347-358

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.

• Regional Upgrading
• Southern Europe
• Regional Disparities
• Human Capital
• European Regional Policy
• Socio-Economic Structures

• University of Porto, Lisboa, Portugal

  Madalena Fonseca

• Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Ugo Fratesi

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 Politecnico di Milano since December 2010. He is Editor of main section papers and Book Review Editor of Regional Studies since 2013. Previously, he was member of the editorial board of the Italian Journal of Regional Science. He was member of the Council of the Italian Section of the Regional Science Association International (AISRe) for the period 2010-2016 and was its Treasurer for the period 2010-2013. He has been involved with various roles in a large number of research project, especially at European level, financed by the Espon programme, the FP5, FP7, Horizon 2020 or the European Commission directly. He is co-author of several books and author of a large number of papers published in refereed journals in the field of regional economics, primarily on the themes of regional growth and development, the models for forecasting regional growth, regional policy, the theory and measurement of regional disparities, the territorial aspects of human capital and innovation.

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