Figure 16
On the left, panel (a), titled “Innovation Discovery Rate”, is a line chart with the horizontal axis labeled “Months” from 2 to 12 with an interval of 2. The vertical axis is labeled “Innovations per Month” and ranges from 0 to 3.5 with an interval of 0.5. Three series are plotted: a purple line with a circular marker for “Active Human-A I”, an orange line with a square marker for “Static A I”, and a gray line with a triangular marker for “Traditional”, as identified in a legend near the top center. The Active Human-A I curve starts around 2.35 innovations per month and fluctuates with multiple small peaks and troughs, ending around 2.37 at 12 months, and a purple dashed line connects the starting and ending points and is labeled “2.3 per month”. The Static A I line begins higher at 3.5 innovations per month but declines steadily, crossing below the purple line and approaching about 1.3 innovations per month by month 12, with a “1.2 per month” label near the tail along the dashed line. The Traditional line remains low throughout, oscillating between about 0.2 and 0.6 innovations per month. In the center, panel (b) titled “Innovation Spillover Network” shows a small node-link diagram made of six purple circular nodes arranged in a hexagon, each labeled with a tactical domain. Starting from the top left in a clockwise direction, the labels are “Transition Play”, “Offensive Counter”, “Defensive Innovation”, “Youth Development”, “Training Method”, and “Set Piece Variation”. Thin gray lines connect nearly every pair of nodes, forming a dense web of links. A couple of thicker red edges, especially between “Offensive Counter” and “Defensive Innovation”, and between “Youth Development” and “Training Method”. Beneath the network, the text reads, “Thicker lines equals stronger spillover effects”. On the right, panel (c), titled “Competitive Advantage Over Time”, combines a blue line, a red line, and pale green bars. The bottom horizontal axis is labeled “Quarters Since Adoption” and ranges from 0 to 8 with an interval of 2, and the left vertical axis is “Performance Advantage (percent)” and ranges from 0 to 25 with an interval of 5. The right vertical axis in green is “Performance Gap (percent)” and ranges from 0 to 20 with an interval of 2. The blue line with circular markers starts near 15 percent in quarter 1, climbs to about 20 percent by quarter 3, and then gradually declines to around 13.8 percent by quarter 8. The red line begins near 0 percent, rising slowly in the early stage and then increasing gradually, reaching about 12 percent by quarter 8. Behind them, semi-transparent green vertical bars correspond to the right vertical axis. A small green annotation “Gap persists” near the mid-to-late quarters. The bar details from left to right are given below. First bar: 15. Second bar: 18. Third bar: 15. Fourth bar: 11. Fifth bar: 7. Sixth bar: 5. Seventh bar: 4. Eighth bar: 2. Note: All numerical data values are approximated.Longitudinal impact analysis