Web 2.0 Expo NY 2011, A Conversation with Fred Wilson and Carlota Perez

Carlota Perez. British-Venezuelan researcher, lecturer and international consultant, specialized in the social and economic impact of technical change and on how it changes opportunities for growth, development and competitiveness. In her acclaimed book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages she presented a theory of the role of finance in the creative destruction process brought about by technical change that has helped understand the boom and bust episodes of the last two decades. She is Professor of Technology and Development at the Technological University of Tallinn, Estonia, Research Associate at CFAP/CERF, Cambridge Finance, Judge Business School and Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics, both at Cambridge University, U.K. and Honorary Professor at SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, U.K. Her articles from the early 1980s have helped understand the relationship between technical and institutional change, between finance and technological diffusion and between technology and economic development. As consultant and lecturer she has worked for various public and private organizations, for major corporations (IBM, Cisco, Ericsson, Telefonica, etc,) and for governments in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia as well as for the EU, the OECD, the UN and several multilateral agencies. In the early 1980s, when acting as Director of Technological development in the Ministry of Development in Venezuela, she founded the first venture capital agency in the country. She is frequently invited to participate as keynote speaker in major international academic, public policy and business events.

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[Charles van der Haegen]

Dear Carlota Perez, You do inspire me.

I believe intergrating the great paradigm changing ideas of Michael Thompson, Ronald Heifetz and Robert Kegan into your own thinking will reinforce them further: Towards more Transdiciplinarity to first define the questions, before designing solutions to our Intractable World situations?

How also to use the modern technologies to Create Good for Mankind?

[phatista]

This is the kind of attitude which is keeping us back. We must be open to suggestion.

[zapparello]

This is a badly thought evolution concept. Most "green" technologies is just a waste of resources, e.g. this is consumerism squared. Recycling = additional spending of resources. So, having a new "green society" will just mean it will eat twice more petrol every day, that's all.

[rhonda hurwitz]

Wow -- brilliant thinker