Carlota Perez
Carlota Elena Pérez Pérez | |
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Perez in 2015 | |
| Born | September 20, 1939 |
| Nationality | Venezuelan, British |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Joseph Schumpeter, Christopher Freeman |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics of Innovation |
| School or tradition | Neo-Schumpeterian |
| 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 |
| Awards | Silver Kondratieff Medal (2012), Honorary Doctorate Utrecht University (2021) |
| Website | |
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.