This paper explores the technological field in order to identify the socio-economic lines of force that drive and shape the direction of technical development, as well as the way in which it influences the economy and society. For this, it presents a set of categories to address the analysis of technological change. Next, the hypothesis of the conformation and diffusion of successive "technical-economic paradigms" is developed, whose crystallization would lead to a change of course in the evolution of all the technologies of a period, leading to profound structural changes in the economic apparatus. Then, the way in which this process of structural change requires equally profound transformations in the socio-institutional sphere is analyzed. Based on this general model of analysis, it is suggested that we are in a period of global technological transition, which is the bearer of new opportunities to outline development strategies.
Keywords:
New Technologies, Global Technological Transition, Productive Processes, Microelectronics, Development Strategies
Author Biography
Carlota Pérez
Cientista social venezolana. Actualmente investigadora visitante en Science Policy Research Unit de la Universidad de Sussex, Inglaterra. Consultora de diversos organismos internacionales.
Pérez, C. (1986). Las nuevas tecnologías : una visión de conjunto. Estudios Internacionales, 19(76), p. 420–459. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1986.15690
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