培养大学生的创新实践能力，是高等学校的重要历史使命，培养风景园林创新设计人才是风景园林高等教育亟待研究和解决的问题。文章概述了创新人才的概念及其内涵。提出风景园林设计竞赛具有探索性、综合性和主体性3个基本特点，设计过程可分为选址、提出规划理念、规划理念空间化3个阶段。指出风景园林设计竞赛是培养学生创新精神、实践动手能力和团结协作精神的重要载体，并从阶段任务、培养目标、培养手段与方法3个层面，分别对选址阶段激发学生创新意识、规划理念阶段激活学生创新思维、规划设计理念空间化阶段培养学生创新设计能力进行探讨，以期拓展培养风景园林创新设计人才的有效平台。

It’s the important historical mission of universities to train the creative & practical of students. The landscape architecture university needs to study and solve the problem of innovative design talents. The paper summarizes the conception and connotation of innovative talents, which are innovative conscious, innovative thought and innovative ability. The landscape design competition has three basic characteristics that are exploration, comprehensive and subjectivity, and three phase of design progress that are finding location, making planning concepts and enabling the concepts space. So the competition is the important carrier of training the creative, practical and teamwork spirit of students. It proposes that during the competition progress in the phase of finding location it should stimulate the innovative conscious, in the phase of making planning concepts it should stimulate the creative thought, and in the phase of enabling the concepts space it should training the innovative ability. The paper probes them from three levels that are the task of phase, training objectives and methods, in order to expand the effective platform for training the innovative design talents of landscape architecture.

江苏省2013年度研究生教育教学改革研究与实践课题（JGLX13_090）;苏州科技学院2012年“研究生教学改革与研究”项目(风景园林学学术型硕士研究生培养模式研究与实践)