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Top 25 Research and development centers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,855 research and development centers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 54,300 professional contacts across them, including 12,674 with verified work emails. India is the largest market and Istanbul the largest hub.
This list covers research and development centers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026. Country and city lists for research and development centers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest research and development centers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 5,574 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every day, the people of Battelle apply science and technology to solving what matters most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,631 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)(,) Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is one of the world's leading technology R&D institutions aiming to innovate a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,325 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hexagon's R&D Centre in India Hexagon's R&D Center in India is the R&D hub for the company globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,201 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cetim is the technological accelerator of the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,011 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HRL Laboratories pioneers the next frontiers of physical and information science.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,010 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NRC Is the largest multidisciplinary R&D centre in Egypt devoted to basic and applied research within the major fields of interest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 983 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the largest Fraunhofer Institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, headquartered in Erlangen, is a global leader in applied research, driving innovation for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 724 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Follow us @GEaerospaceresearch and @GEVernova!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 507 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an Engineering and Product Development Center that conceives, develops, and productizes new technologies, products and services towards a more sustainable society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CERTI is a technology-based institution, located at Florianopolis – SC, Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) was established on 16 September 1986, initially as a project under the Office of Permanent Secretary, Ministry of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 437 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entregamos mais do que soluções – entregamos tecnologia, inovação e transformação digital!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 435 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Institute is a successful self-supported model of R,D&I.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 429 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leitat is a technology centre at both state and European level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 427 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A FPFtech é um centro tecnológico privado de pesquisa e desenvolvimento de projetos nas áreas de software e hardware, capacitação tecnológica, responsabilidade social…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 407 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centro Público de Investigación de la Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación, Secihti, especializado en el desarrollo y aplicación de manufactura avanzada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco, A.C.(CIATEJ) es un Centro de Investigación que pertenece a la Coordinación de Medio Ambiente…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 379 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saint-Gobain, the world leader in habitat and construction markets, designs, manufactures and distributes building materials, providing innovative solution to the challenges of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saint-Gobain Research Paris is one of eight major cross-business research centers that serve all the Activities of Saint-Gobain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 345 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH develops solutions and technologies for commerce and industry covering a wide range of sectors, and is a leading international…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 334 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI), is an autonomous Research & Development Institute focusing on providing 'Technology Solutions' to the manufacturing sector and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ceit is a non profit research centre that was created by the University of Navarra in 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sigma Design is where the best go to innovate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rofous Software is now part of GlobalLogic, a leading R&D software provider based in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: research and development centers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names research and development centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of research and development centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name research and development centers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Research and development centers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among research and development centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for research and development centers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “research and development centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names research and development centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among research and development centers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 12,674 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Research and development centers by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Research and development centers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Research and development centers based in India198
- Research and development centers based in the United States178
- Research and development centers based in Türkiye143
- Research and development centers based in Italy93
- Research and development centers based in Brazil88
- Research and development centers based in Spain67
- Research and development centers based in the United Kingdom62
- Research and development centers based in France56
- Research and development centers based in Germany46
- Research and development centers based in Canada37
- Research and development centers based in Poland37
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names research and development centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many research and development centers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,855 research and development centers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Battelle, headquartered in Columbus, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most research and development centers?
India leads with 198 companies, followed by the United States (178) and Türkiye (143). Every research and development centers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most research and development centers?
Istanbul leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by Bangalore (19) and Hyderabad (19).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 12,674 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,855 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.