Social Study of Industrialization and Technology Transfer in Regenerative Medicine

再生医学是日本和其他发达国家在政治上推动的先进医疗技术之一。本研究通过深入访谈和实地考察，了解日本的现状，并阐明该领域的产业化和技术转让所面临的挑战。虽然日本在基础研究方面的成就闻名于世，但转向临床研究并实现产业化的进程往往会被推迟。本研究从科技社会学的视角，论证了学术界、企业界和政策制定者之间的社会距离是造成这种延迟的原因。

Regenerative medicine is one of the advanced medical technologies that are politically promoted in Japan as well as in other developed countries. This study conducted in-depth interviews and fieldwork to understand the current situation in Japan and to illuminate the challenges for industrialization and technology transfer in this field. While Japan is renowned for its achievements in basic research, the process of shifting to clinical research and making industrialization tend to be delayed. From the perspective of sociology of science and technology, this study demonstrates that the social distances between academia, business and policymakers cause such delay.