Abstract: Entrepreneurial innovation spirit determines the high quality development of returning entrepreneurial enterprises, and entrepreneurial training is an important way to enhance the innovation spirit of returning entrepreneurs. Based on the survey data of 2139 national hometown entrepreneurial enterprises in 2019, we empirically analyzed the impact of entrepreneurship training on the innovation spirit of hometown entrepreneurs and its mechanism of action. It found that both offline training before returning to home and online training after returning to home significantly enhance the innovation spirit of returning entrepreneurs. Pre-return offline training can significantly enhance the innovation spirit of survival and developmental, central and western, primary and tertiary industry returnee entrepreneurs; post-return offline training can significantly enhance the innovation spirit of value-based and tertiary industry entrepreneurs; post-return online training can significantly enhance the innovation spirit of developmental, central and secondary industry entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship training can significantly and positively affect the social capital accumulation of entrepreneurs who return to their hometowns.

Key words: rural revitalization, entrepreneurship training, online training, offline training, innovation spirit, social capital