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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.

==Career==

Perez, who mainly lives in Caracas, Venezuela, as
a consultant, is Honorary Research Fellow at
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ SPRU, University of
Sussex, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the
http://www.intech.unu.edu/ United Nation
University's Institute of New Technologies,
Maastricht, The Netherlands.  Currently, she is
Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the
http://www.cerf.cam.ac.uk/home/index.php Cambridge
Endowment for Research in Finance(CERF),
http://www.jims.cam.ac.uk/ Judge Institute of
Management, University of Cambridge.

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
R&D|Research and Development affiliate of PDVSA,
the national 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.

==Theory==

Carlota Perez ist a Joseph
Schumpeter|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) has
had a very positive response from academics as
well as from the financial and the
technology-based business communities.

==External links==

* http://www.carlotaperez.org/ official homepage,
with publications to download
*
http://www.praxis.ee/index.php?lang=en&page_id=888
&menu_id=134 a lecture as video stream