Carlota Perez
Profile Bio
Centennial Professor of International Development at the
London School of Economics
, UK; Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development at the
Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance
at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; and Honorary Professor at
SPRU
, the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK. Professor Perez' books and papers are used as study material in post-graduate courses in universities around the world, and she has lectured at numerous seminars and student conferences.
Venezuelan-British researcher, lecturer and international consultant, Carlota Perez studies the history of technical change and its impact on economic growth and development.
In Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Elgar 2002), she put forward her theory of the emergence and diffusion of technological revolutions and of the role of finance in the process. Her work has contributed to the present understanding of the relationship between technology, innovation and economic development; between technical and institutional change; and between finance and technological diffusion. She is currently working on a sequel, Beyond the Technological Revolution , funded by the Anthemis Institute, which analyses the roles that government, business and civil society play in the deployment of the potential of each revolution.
More here: http://www.carlotaperez.org/