DIJ director Franz Waldenberger and DIJ alumnus Martin Hemmert (Korea University) are authors of a new open access article that systemically reviews studies on new venture entrepreneurship in East Asia. “New venture entrepreneurship and context in East Asia: a systematic literature review” (Asian Business & Management, online first), jointly researched and written with Adam R. Cross, Ying Cheng, Jae‑Jin Kim, Masahiro Kotosaka, and Leven J. Zheng, examines articles published in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journals between 2000 and 2020. It finds that the research body is highly unbalanced: most articles are single-country studies focused on China, apply a quantitative methodology, and concentrate on topics such as entrepreneurial strategies and new venture entrepreneurs’ personal attributes and networks. More contextualized research on countries such as Japan and South Korea and on less studied themes such as culture, entrepreneurial financing and teams, new venture internationalization and entrepreneurial intention is desirable. The article is an outcome of the DIJ research project Start-ups in Asia – the role of agglomerations and international linkages.