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Top 25 Economic research institutes based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 79 economic research institutes headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 1,464 professional contacts across them, including 554 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers economic research institutes headquartered in Italy, 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 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest economic research institutes based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Collegio Carlo Alberto is a foundation created in 2004 as a joint initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo and the University of Torino.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nomisma engages in economic research and consulting activities for companies, associations, and public administrations at national and international levels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in Milan in 1980, CSIL is an independent research institute, specialising in applied economics, industry competitiveness, small business, market analysis, evaluation and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REF è una società indipendente che offre ricerca e consulenze personalizzate, organizza osservatori e attività di formazione e affianca aziende, istituzioni, organismi governativi…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies is an inter-disciplinary research centre at the heart of the European University Institute (EUI).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lear is an economic consultancy that specializes in applying microeconomic modelling and quantitative tools to a variety of issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “I-AER nasce a Castellanza (VA), poco distante da Milano, cuore pulsante dell’economia italiana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FBK-IRVAPP is a policy-relevant research institute of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and it is based in Trento (Italy).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Il Centro Studi Tagliacarne ha il fine di promuovere e diffondere la cultura economica, svolgendo attività di studi, di ricerca e di informazione.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Format nasce nel 1992.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ENG] Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia Founded in 1968, ISIG is an independent research institute and think-tank in the field of social sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SRM is an Italian Research Center for Economic Studies related to Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Group and also supported by the Turin based Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “StudiaBo is a research company specialized in economic analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Department of Economics and Management was established in 2012 through the merger of the existing Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods and Department of Business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grins è un Partenariato Esteso e Fondazione Finanziato dal PNRR, Missione 4 (Infrastruttura e Ricerca), Componente 2 (Dalla Ricerca all’Impresa), Investimento 1.3 (Partnership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SGR International is a company that deals with market research and social and sociological research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche è un ambiente culturale e scientifico, che, valorizzando l’integrazione delle diverse competenze, contribuisce alla ricerca di base sui…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business Intelligence Group Primario Istituto di Ricerche di Mercato a livello Nazionale, è l’atelier di ricerca fondato e diretto dal Dott.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP) performs policy-oriented and funded research, which also supports the postgraduate training activities of the Luiss…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Il Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche (ESOMAS) nasce nel 2012 dalla fusione dei Dipartimenti di Scienze Economiche e Finanziarie “Prato” e di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Iref was founded by Acli in 1968, in order to design and develop research activities on social issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1986, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano is an international research center dedicated to the study of economic development, international trade, migration, and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IDEA Studi e Ricerche aiuta imprese, organizzazioni, associazioni e istituzioni a comprendere i cambiamenti che attraversano mercati, persone, servizi e territori.La nostra…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Torino Nord Ovest is a social enterprise and a centre carrying out research, consultancy, evaluation and proposal activities in the economic research field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: economic research institutes. 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 economic research institutes.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of economic research institutes, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name economic research institutes. 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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Economic research institutes based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 79 companies.
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 economic research institutes, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Italy whose own description of what they do matches “economic research institutes”. 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 economic research institutes), 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 economic research institutes, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 554 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 economic research institutes, 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 economic research institutes are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 79 economic research institutes headquartered in Italy 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?
Collegio Carlo Alberto, headquartered in Torino, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most economic research institutes?
Roma leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Milano (9) and Rome (8).
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 554 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 79 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 19, 2026.
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