Abstract: Social capital is a resource existing in the relationship of social structure, and it is also an important factor to trigger responsible innovation behavior. Based on the resource-based theory and dynamic capability theory, this paper constructed the influence relationship model of "social capital-resource reconstruction-responsible innovation" with adaptive governance as the moderating variable, and explored the influence mechanism of social capital on responsible innovation. Using the structural equation model and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to analyze 469 questionnaires, the author of this paper drew the following conclusions: (1) Social capital can directly and positively affect responsible innovation, and can also indirectly and positively affect responsible innovation through resource reconstruction, and adaptive governance positively regulates the relationship between social capital and responsible innovation. (2) The explanatory power of the realization path of responsible innovation triggered by high structural capital and high relational capital is greater than that of the other two modes. (3) Different dimensions of social capital have different effects on responsible innovation. Higher structural capital and relational capital can promote the implementation of responsible innovation. Lack of cognitive capital is the prerequisite for triggering responsible innovation. The research results revealed the internal mechanism of social capital affecting responsible innovation and will enrich the quantitative research results of responsible innovation. 

Key words: social capital, resource reconstruction, adaptive governance, responsible innovation