Carlota Perez

Carlota Elena Pérez Pérez
Perez in 2015
Born	(1939-09-20) September 20, 1939 (age 84) Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Venezuelan, British
Academic career
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
Field	Economics of Innovation
School or tradition	Neo-Schumpeterian
Influences	Joseph Schumpeter, Christopher Freeman
Awards	Silver Kondratieff Medal (2012), Honorary Doctorate Utrecht University (2021)
Website	carlotaperez.org

Carlota Perez (Spanish: Carlota Pérez; born September 20, 1939, in Caracas^[1]) is a British-Venezuelan^[2] 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^[3] by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and in 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Utrecht University.