The paper explains the great importance of the research on the innovative talents of the new times,  and explores the connotation of the new times: taking innovation as the age spirit,  including peaceful and developing age, civilized ecosystem age, knowledge economy age, democratic and law-ruled age, creative culture age, and reform and opening age explored from multi-views.  In the paper the innovative talents of the new times are divided into four categories: the general, the top,  the outstanding and the master.  Five basic features of the innovative intellects of the new times are summarized as: the concepts with up-to-date sense of times,  the comprehension of qualities, the advantage of orientations, the comprehension of researches and the innovation of accomplishments.  The paper summarizes the training pattern of innovative talents of the new times and interprets the enlightenment of the research on innovative talents of the new times to the innovation of higher education.