Mr Caetano Penna

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Post:Research Fellow (SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research)
Other posts:Research Assistant (The Sussex Energy Group)
 Research Student (SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research)
Location:Jubilee Building Jub-346
Email:C.Penna@sussex.ac.uk

Telephone numbers
Internal:8177
UK:(01273) 678177
International:+44 1273 678177
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Biography

Mr. Penna holds an MA in Technology Governance from Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), a BA in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and a technical degree as translator. He is a founding partner of BabelTeam Internet Business Solutions, and has previously worked at the Investor Relations department of Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company.

 

His complete list of publications can be found here.

Role

Caetano Penna is Research Fellow in Finance and Innovation at SPRU, University of Sussex, where he plays a leading role in linking two new research projects run by Professor Mariana Mazzucato (INET’s Financing Innovation and Ford Foundation’s Finance and The Entrepreneurial State). He is also PhD candidate at SPRU (expected graduation in July 2013), researching on the co-evolution of industries, technologies and societal issues, with an empirical focus on the American auto industry. 

- Science and Technology Policy

- Financing Innovation

- Role of the State in the Economy

- Reforming Global Finance

- Transitions to Sustainability

- Societal Issues

- Sustainable Transport

- Automobile Industry

- Development Banks

Penna, Caetano C R and Geels, Frank W (2012) Multi-dimensional struggles in the greening of industry: a dialectic issue lifecycle model and case study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79 (6). 999 - 1020. ISSN 0040-1625