For example, Van de Ven et al. (1999) argue that different
degrees of novelty need to be managed differently and
maintain that structural variables decreasing the degree
of radical (exploratory) innovation may simultaneously
increase the degree of incremental (exploitative) innovation.
Furthermore, both exploratory and exploitative
innovations generate knowledge, but for different purposes,
and the extent of new knowledge differ (Un, 2010).
Dewar and Dutton (1986) argue that exploratory (radical)
innovations contain a high degree of new knowledge,
whereas exploitative (incremental) innovations build on
a low degree of new knowledge. Moreover, especially
in the early stages, radical change creates a high degree
of uncertainty in the exploratory project as well as the
whole organization, whereas the level of uncertainty is
regarded as much lower in incremental (exploitative) innovations
(e.g., Chiesa et al., 2009)