Porfirio Guevara, Ph.D. is a research associate at the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. Previously he was an assistant professor at the Institute for Systems, Innovation and Sustainability Sciences (ISIS), University of Graz, Austria. D. in Sustainability Management from the University of Graz, Austria; M.Ph. in System Dynamics from the University of Bergen, Norway; MSc. in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona; and B.Ph. in Economics, University of Costa Rica. During 1998-2010 he worked at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. During this time he also collaborated with institutions such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and InWEnt (International Training and Development, Germany). Main lines of research: Housing Economics, Modeling and Simulation of Complex Dynamic Systems; Technological Change and Education.
Research work
Place of work: INCAE Business School.
From: 2015 To: Present
Position: Consultant
Description: Research on issues of competitiveness, labor markets, housing and sustainability in Central American countries.
Place of work: Institute for Systemic Sciences, Innovation, and Sustainability (ISIS), (KFU) University of Graz, Austria.
From: 2010 To: 2015
Position: Assistant Professor
Description: Research in complex systems and economic modeling applied to socioeconomic issues, population and innovation. Teaching and supervisory activities.
Place of work: INCAE Business School.
From: 1999 To: 2010
Position: Senior Researcher
Description: Research on productivity, innovation and sustainability in Central American countries.
Place of work: The World Bank. New Export Discoveries in Latin America.
From: 2007 To: 2007
Position: Researcher.
Description: Research project that sought to measure and understand the process of new export discoveries in Costa Rica, and to determine whether the failures of and/or public policies affected the emergence of replicated processes and their impact on the country's export performance.
Place of Work: Inter-American Development Bank.
From: 2006 To: 2006
Position: Researcher
Description: Evaluation of the loan portfolio for project development in Central America.
