Abstract: In the new era where industrial upgrading and the demand for lifelong learning are intertwined, the integration of vocational and continuing education for innovation and entrepreneurship in open education serves as a crucial link between talent cultivation and industrial innovation. Centering on this proposition, based on the contemporary value of serving the national innovation-driven development strategy, breaking the problem of the separation of career and continuation, and empowering the construction of a learning society, following the principles of demand orientation, ability-based, and system collaboration, a four-dimensional education path has been explored: achieve the simultaneous cultivation of job capabilities and innovation and entrepreneurship qualities through goal integration, connect the pre-employment and post-employment learning stages through process integration, coordinate the physical and virtual spaces through resource integration, and construct a dynamic ability growth map through evaluation integration. This path, through in-depth collaboration between industry and education, effectively enhances the innovative thinking and practical abilities of talents, providing an operational education solution for regional industrial upgrading and the construction of a learning society.

Key words: Industry-education collaboration, Open education, Integration of career and continuation, Innovation and entrepreneurship education, Demand-oriented, Resource integration