• PHD Economic Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003
World Area Of Focus:
• Canada Less than 10% • Latin America 10%-24%
Languages:
• Spanish (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Community development, urban planning, immigrant labor, economic development
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Mexico, Paraguay • Advisor, Warren County Economic Development Director • International Labour Organization, Inter-American Development Bank, Bank of the Northeast Brazil and Ontario Ministry of
Economic Development and Trade • Policy Guide for Economic Developers Eastern NC
Distinctions:
• -ongoing External Grants: NSF, Regional Studies Association Research Network, Ford, Inter-American, Kauffman and Sloan Foundations; NC Biotechnology Center • -ongoing consultant, International Labour Organization, Inter-American Development Bank, Bank of the Northeast Brazil and Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. • 2011-2012 Global Research Institute Fellow, 2011-2012
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
17
Relevant Courses Taught:
• PLAN 770 Economic Development Policy
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Lowe, Nichola and Natasha Iskander. Power Through Problem Solving: Latino Immigrants and the Inconsistencies of Industrial Restructuring. Population, Space and Place. Forthcoming.
• 2016 Lowe, Nichola. Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out. Metropolitics. 2015. URL : http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Reskilling-Urban-
• 2016 Book chapters: Iskander, Natasha and Nichola Lowe (alphabetical). Forthcoming. Immigration and the Politics of Skill. Gordon L. Clark, Maryann Feldman, Meric Gertler and Dariusz Wójcik (eds). The New Oxford Handbook on Economic Geography, Oxford University Press.
• 2016 Lester, T. William and Nichola Lowe. 2015. Rebuilding the Bridge to the Future: An Analysis of What Works for North Carolina's Economy. Department of City and Regional Planning, Chapel Hill.
• 2016 Lowe, Nichola, Meenu Tewari and T. William Lester. 2015. Planning for Inclusive Prosperity: Lessons from the North Carolina Experience. Carolina Planning Journal. 40: 5-12.
• 2016 2016 “The Transformers: Immigration and Tacit Knowledge Development,” eds. K Elsbach et al. inQualitative Organizational Research – Volume 3 Best Papers from the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research.
• 2016 Feldman, Maryann and Nichola Lowe. Forthcoming. How Do Ideas Get Into the Air? Governance and the Construction of Place-specific Innovative Advantage. Bathelt, Harald, Patrick Cohendet, Sebastian Henn and Laurent Simon (eds). The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation, Edward Elgar: Northampton (MA).
• 2016 Book review: Lowe, Nichola. Forthcoming. Book Review: Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.) The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor. Journal of Urban Design.
• 2016 Nichola Lowe. 2015. "The Future of Work: Encouraging Employers to Train Workers." Other Pacific Standard Magazine, September 24.
• 2015 Lowe, Nichola and Meric Gertler . (Forthcoming) "Diversity and the Evolution of a Life Science Innovation
System: The Toronto Region in Comparative Perspective." D.A. Wolfe and M. Lucas (eds) Global Networks
and Local Linkages: The Paradox of Clusters in an Open Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens
University Press and Queens School of Policy Studies.
• 2015 Lowe, Nichola. Job Creation and the Knowledge Economy: Lessons from North Carolina’s Life Science Manufacturing Initiative. Economic Development Quarterly (Status: in press).
• 2015 Lowe, Nichola and Meric Gertler. Building on Diversity: Institutional Foundations of Hybrid Strategies in Toronto’s Life Sciences. Regional Studies. (Status: accepted).
• 2015 Lowe, Nichola. Challenging Tradition: Un-Locking New Paths to Regional Industrial Upgrading. Environment and Planning A. (Status: accepted).
• 2015 Donegan, Mary, Joshua Drucker, Harvey Goldstein, Nichola Lowe and Emil Malizia. Economic Development, Urban Planning and the Creative Class. Journal of the American Planning Association. (Status: accepted).
• 2015 Donegan, Mary and Nichola Lowe. Inequality in the Creative City: Is There Still a Place for “Old-Fashioned” Institutions? Economic Development Quarterly. (Status: in press).
• 2015 Lowe, Nichola. Patterns of Productivity Enhancement in Paraguay’s Small and Medium Enterprises. In D. Borda (ed) Economia y Empleo en el Paraguay. Asunción: CADEP
• 2011 “Building Job Quality from the Inside Out: Mexican Immigrants, Skills and Jobs in the Construction Industry,” with Natasha Iskander, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 66 (4) 2011
• 2008 Lowe, Nichola and Brian Morton. 2008. Developing Standards: The Role of the Community Benefits Agreements in Enhancing Job Quality. Community Development Journal. Vol.39. No.2.
• 2008 Donegan, Mary and Nichola Lowe. 2008. Inequality in the Creative City: Is There Still a Place for “Old-Fashioned” Institutions? Economic Development Quarterly. Vol. 22. No.1.
• 2007 Lowe, Nichola. 2007. Prioridades para El Mejoramiento de las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas. D. Borda (ed) Economía y Empleo en el Paraguay. Asunción: CADEP.
• 2007 “Patterns of Productivity Enhancement in Paraguay’s Small and Medium Enterprises,” in Economía y Empleo en el Paraguay, ed. D Borda. CADEP.
• 2004 Lowe, Nichola. 2004. Book Review: Jane Collins, Threads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global
Apparel Industry. Economic Geography. 80 (July) : 319-321
• 2004 Nichola Lowe. July 2004. ""Threads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry by Jane Collins"" Economic Geography. 80 (3) 319-321.
• 2003 Lowe, Nichola. 2003. "Overcoming the Challenges of Cooperation: The Case of Joint Upgrading in
Guadalajara’s Apparel Making Industry." Washington D.C.: Sustainable Development Department,
Inter-American Development Bank
• 1999 Lowe, N. and M. Kenney. 1999. "Foreign Investment and the Global Geography of Production:
Why the Mexican Consumer Electronics Industry Failed." World Development 27 (August) : 1427-1443
• 1998 Lowe, Nichola and Martin Kenney. 1998. "To Create an Industry-The Growth of Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing in Mexico and Taiwan." Science, Technology and Society 3 (Jan - June) : 49-74
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