RIDE has had an ambition to produce one or two positioning papers each year. These positioning papers have been selected by the RIDE Management team to represent highly relevant policy implications which RIDE wants to communicate as specifically important results of the research.

In total RIDE has co-financed eleven positioning papers considered to be of special importance for representing RIDE research and its value to different decision and policy makers. Two of these are still only drafts (Jens Lage Hellman, financed 2009, Evangelos Bourelos, financed 2009), while two have been submitted to international journals for review (Holmén et al, financed by RIDE 2007, included also as a RIDE-IMIT WP; and Kushnir, 2009). Eight of the papers have been published or are in the process to become so. These are illustrated by Abstracts below.