Carlota Perez
Prof. Carlota Perez is a British-Venezuelan scholar who studies the socio-economic impact of major technical change. Author of the influential book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and golden Ages, she is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), University College London, and at SPRU, University of Sussex, UK. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Nurkse Institute, TalTech, Estonia. She works globally as consultant and speaker. Carlota’s current research project analyses the historical role of government in shaping the context for innovation, growth and social progress.
Famous scientists about Carlota
“As regards the relationship between technology, the economy and society, Carlota Perez is one of the world’s most innovative researchers“
Manuel Castells
Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Universitat Oberta of Catalunya
“Carlota Perez has made several highly original contributions to the understanding of long-term technological transformations and the way in which such changes interact with wider economic, social and political changes”
Christopher Freeman
Emeritus Professor of SPRU, University of Sussex, UK