Carlota Elena Pérez Pérez | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Venezuelan, British |
Academic career | |
Field | Economics of Innovation |
Institutions | University College London (Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose), University of Sussex (SPRU), Tallinn University of Technology, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge |
School or tradition | Neo-Schumpeterian |
Influences | Joseph Schumpeter, Christopher Freeman |
Awards | Silver Kondratieff Medal (2012), Honorary Doctorate Utrecht University (2021) |
Website | carlotaperez |
Carlota Perez (Spanish: Carlota Pérez; born September 20, 1939, in Caracas[1]) is a British-Venezuelan[2] scholar specialized in technology and socio-economic development. She researches the concept of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts and the theory of great surges, a further development of Schumpeter's work on Kondratieff waves. In 2012 she was awarded the Silver Kondratieff Medal[3] by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and in 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Utrecht University.