Carlota Perez

Carlota Perez is the scholar behind the Perez Technological Surge Cycle, the framework Kyle’s Technological Innovation concept page leans on for its long-wave view of progress. In that framing, successive techno-economic paradigms unfold through two periods: an installation phase (frenzy, bubble, crash) followed by a deployment phase (the “golden age” of broad diffusion). In the wiki this supplies the macro counterpart to Bilal Zuberi’s more practitioner-level argument (the six hurdles facing deep tech) — Perez answers where in the cycle we are, while Zuberi answers what gates the next build-out. Her page was captured from an image-only inbox note, so the grounded detail here is the surge-cycle structure as the concept pages describe it.

Context: Carlota Perez is a Venezuelan-British scholar of technology and socio-economic development, best known for Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (2002), which formalized the installation→deployment “great surge” model of how technological revolutions and financial capital interact across roughly 50-year cycles.

Where this appears

• Perez Technological Surge Cycle — the named framework: installation phase (bubble/crash) into deployment phase (golden age).
• Technological Innovation — her surge cycle supplies the long-wave frame for the corpus’s “are we still building?” question, paired with Zuberi’s deep-tech hurdles.