Briefings are original essays, focusing on emerging risks and disruptive innovation, and aim to cut through critical geo-political and economic noise. Like the ‘long reads’, they create fresh, novel perspectives, exploring ‘high impact uncertainties’ that generate extreme possible scenarios and herald potential large-scale structural and systemic disruption. They also identify ‘white space’, where breakthrough innovation may emerge and which is often the target of the most innovative corporations, academic research teams and start-ups.