A method includes: coating a composition for forming a PZT ferroelectric film not containing Nb on a lower electrode 11 formed on a substrate 10, prebaking the composition, and baking the composition to be crystallized and to thereby form a crystallization promoting layer 12 having a thickness of 45 to 90 nm thereon; coating a composition for forming a PNbZT-based ferroelectric film, containing 4 to 10 at% of Nb in 100 at% of all the perovskite B site atoms (Zr, Ti) contained in the composition, on the formed crystallization promoting layer 12 to form a coating film 13a of PNbZT thereon; and pre-baking the coating film 13a and then baking the coating film 13a to be crystallized and to thereby form a PNbZT ferroelectric thin film on the lower electrode 11.