Carlota Perez is a Venezuelan scholar and expert on technology and socio-economic development most famous for her concept of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts and her theory of great surges, a further development of the Kondratieff waves. By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In economics, Kondratiev waves, also referred to as the K-waves, are the description of an alleged regular S-shaped cycle in the modern world economy. ...

Career

Perez, who mainly lives in Caracas, Venezuela, as a consultant, is Honorary Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the United Nation University's Institute of New Technologies, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Currently, she is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance(CERF), Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge. City motto: Ave María Santísima, sin pecado concebida, en el primer instante de su ser natural. ... The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. ... Maastricht (Dutch: Maastricht; Limburgish and city dialect: Mestreech) is a municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Perez has held posts in the government of her country, first in the Institute of Foreign Commerce in relation with the technology aspects of the North South Dialogue (1975-1977), later as founding Director of Technology in the Ministry of Industry (1980-1983). Under her directorship, the first venture capital agency, FINTEC, was established. She has been consultant to most of the major public and private companies in Venezuela, in particular to INTEVEP, the Research and Development affiliate of PDVSA, the national petroleum company. The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of research and technological development. ... Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA) is the Venezuelan nationally owned petroleum company. ...

As international consultant she has worked for various multilateral organizations, including the OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNDP and the World Bank. She has been consultant and lecturer in private companies and business events and has advised various industry associations, Ministries and Councils of Industry or Science and Technology, R&D institutes and development banks in Latin America (Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Brazil) and other regions (Canada, Norway, Estonia). Several elements of the European Union's Lisbon Strategy are based on her work as well. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization of those developed countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market economy. ... The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body, UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment and development issues. ... UNESCO logo UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is an agency of the United Nations with the mission of helping countries pursue sustainable industrial development, it is a specialist in industrial affairs. ... The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest multilateral source of grant technical assistance in the world. ... Logo of the World Bank The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... The Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process, is an action and development plan for the European Union. ...

Theory

Carlota Perez is a neo-Schumpeterian and a student of Christopher Freeman, with whom she closely collaborates. Her articles, from the early 1980s, have contributed to the present understanding of the relationship between basic innovations, technical and institutional change, and economic development. Her recent book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Edward Elgar 2002) (ISBN 1843763311) has had a very positive response from academics as well as from the financial and the technology-based business communities. Joseph Schumpeter Joseph Alois Schumpeter (February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian economist (though not an Austrian economist in the sense of being a member of the Austrian School of economics) and a giant in the history of economic thought. ... Christopher Freeman is an English economist, the founder and first director of the University of Sussex SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Center), and one of the most eminent modern Kondratieff wave/business cycle theorists and neo-Schumpeterians. ...

External links

• official homepage, with publications to download
• a lecture as video stream