Abstract: Innovation and entrepreneurship education of food talents in higher vocational colleges is not only the demand of food specialty development, but also the requirement of the society for the training of food professionals. School-enterprise cooperative education integrates the advantages of both higher vocational colleges and enterprises, which is an effective way to cultivate innovative food professionals suitable for market. This paper analyzes the importance of cultivating the innovation and entrepreneurship ability of food professionals, and the advantages of school-enterprise cooperation in the cultivation of students' innovation and entrepreneurship ability. In teaching practice, we reform the curriculums and teaching methods, and explore the effect of cultivating innovative talents under the multiple cooperation mode between our college and enterprises, so as to provide reference for training innovative and entrepreneurial talents of food specialty.

Key words: School-enterprise cooperation, Food specialty, Innovation and entrepreneurship