Carlota Perez

Carlota Elena Pérez Pérez
Perez in 2015
Born (1939-09-20) September 20, 1939
NationalityVenezuelan, British
Academic background
InfluencesJoseph Schumpeter, Christopher Freeman
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics of Innovation
School or traditionNeo-Schumpeterian
InstitutionsUniversity College London (Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose), University of Sussex (SPRU), Tallinn University of Technology, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge
AwardsSilver Kondratieff Medal (2012), Honorary Doctorate Utrecht University (2021)
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Carlota Perez (Spanish: Carlota Pérez; born September 20, 1939, in Caracas) is a British-Venezuelan 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 by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and in 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Utrecht University.