Strategiczne wyzwania dla wytwórców banknotów i dokumentów w kontekście bezpieczeństwa państwa

The article presents the strategic challenges for public documents and banknotes producers - economic entities of significant importance for national security. The article discusses the impact of this type of enterprises on the economic security of the state and public safety. Strategic challenges of the security printing industry resulting from modern technological development have been identified and discussed. In particular, the focus was put on three areas: integrating new entities into existing technological value chains of security printing manufacturers by new firms; joining new, external chain links of the security printing value which are out of control of the security printing manufacturers; building alternative or complementary products and services to the classic security printing offer. The conducted analyses lead to the conclusion that the long-term market presence and development of banknotes and public documents producers require them to adapt production, research and development activities to the strategic trends identified herein.