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.