Innovation – End State of High-Performance Scientific Research in a Military University
Innovation – End State of High-Performance Scientific Research in a Military University

Summary/Abstract: With the transition to military higher education, scientific research and innovation have become necessary prerequisites for building a successful academic environment. Amateurism has considerably diminished as a result of the training and improvement of the skills needed in this domain, whose value is increasingly recognised as a galvanising factor in achieving specific quality indicators for a modern military university. Against this background, we can argue that scientific research, scientific innovation, and military higher education intertwine in a much more active way than in previous years, with the ultimate aim of enhancing military science and practice. The emergence of new preoccupations for scientific research and innovation, as pillars supporting a modern military university, arise not only from the imperative of acknowledging this need but also as a consequence of the identification of scientific knowledge among the solutions needed to provide the conditions specific to a future military university, able to respond to and master the wide array of challenges generated by the unknown in future military actions. The proposed approach draws attention to aspects related to the importance of knowledge, understanding, explanation, and argumentation of conceptual, structural, actional, and managerial clarifications of scientific research, scientific progress and innovation, as fundamentals of excellence in a modern military university. Thus, the postmodern military university will acquire the capacity to fulfil its specific missions only in an optimal framework, adequate for recognising scientific research and innovation as imperatives for the dynamics of change in society and in the military environment.

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