Abstract: Training innovation and entrepreneurship talents (IETs) is an essential mission and a logical choice for higher education. As the original discipline of innovation and entrepreneurship and a major part of “new liberal arts” construction, business is especially suitable for and needs to cultivate the IETs. However, there are still many problems in traditional business IETs training, due to the mismatch between current training objectives, systems and models and the actual IETs needs. Upon analyzing these existing problems, this study discusses the significance of maker education in IETs training, and puts forward a new training model by integrating maker education into business training objectives, program, process, quality assurance and evaluation. The developed model and corresponding implementation suggestions provide new ideas and references for business majors in colleges and universities to strengthen their IETs cultivation.

Key words: Maker education, Innovation and entrepreneurship, Business, Talent training model