Education's Role in Technological Revolutions - A Conversation with Carlota Perez

Carlota Perez is a British-Venezuelan researcher, lecturer and
international consultant. She studies the mutual shaping of
technical change and society and the lessons provided by the
history of technological revolutions for economic growth and
development.


In Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics
of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Elgar 2002), Carlota put forward her
theory of the emergence and diffusion of technological
revolutions and of the role of finance in the process. She is
currently working on a sequel, Beyond the Technological
Revolution, funded by Anthemis UK, which will analyse the roles
that government, business and civil society play in the
deployment of the potential of each revolution.


Carlota is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and
Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London, UK and at
SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of
Sussex, UK; Adjunct Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic
Development at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and
Governance at TalTech, Estonia. 


Her long career has spanned civil service, consultancy, academic
research and teaching, beginning in the 1970s with an
investigation into the structural causes of the energy crisis in
her home country of Venezuela. After working on international
technology transfer at the Institute of Foreign Trade in the
1970s, she became the founding Director of Technological
Development at the Ministry of Industry (1980-83) – where,
alongside other policy instruments to promote innovation, she
created the first venture capital fund in the country.


Carlota has acted as consultant for several Latin American
governments and for international organisations and multilateral
agencies such as UN Industrial Development Organisation, United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(CEPAL), the Andean Pact, the World Bank, the OECD and the EU,
where she chaired the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Expert
Group for Green Growth and Jobs.


Social Links


Twitter: @CarlotaPrzPerez


Youtube: @CarlotaPerez