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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 Shift s and her theory of great surges, a further development of the Kondratieff waves.1 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.
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.
As international consultant she has worked for various multilateral organizations, including the OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNDP and the World BankThe International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages BIRD), better known as the World Bank is an international organization created to fight poverty by means of financing states. Its operation is maintained through payment. 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, Latin America (Venezuela, ChileThe word chile may also refer to Chilli pepper. The Republic of Chile is a republic located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow piece of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argenti, PeruFor other uses, see Peru (disambiguation The Republic of Per ( Spanish: Per Quechua, Aymara: Piruw is a country in western South America, bordering with Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the east, south-east and south, Chil, EcuadorThe Republic of Ecuador is a country of South America. Republica del Ecuador ( In Detail) National motto: Libertad y Orden ( Spanish; "The peace and wellbeing, the glory and triumph" Official language Spanish Capital Quito Largest City Guayaquil President, UruguayThe Eastern Republic of Uruguay (translated from the Spanish Republica Oriental del Uruguay , is a country in southern South America, bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) to the s, ArgentinaArgentina is a Spanish-speaking country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast and Chile in th, ColombiaFor other uses see Columbia. The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. It is bound by earth, to the north and north west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the we, 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.
