Abstract: Under the background of the new era, the employment pressure of college graduates is huge. How to improve the employability of college students has become the focus and difficulty of the current mass entrepreneurship education. This paper starts with the concept of design thinking and explores the origin of design thinking and entrepreneurship education, then it constructs the model of design thinking driving entrepreneurship and innovation education, and takes the entrepreneurial skills competition as an example to explain the great influence of design thinking as a methodology on entrepreneurship and innovation education, which provides new ideas and new opportunities for the current innovation and innovation education reform. Finally, the paper summarizes and comments, pointing out the direction for the follow-up research.

Key words: Design thinking, Innovation and entrepreneurship education, Drive, Innovation ability, Reform in education