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Top 25 Research centers based in Italy

RevenueBase identified 238 company matches for research centers associated with Italy as of November 2026 and tracks 18,660 professional contacts across them, including 8,605 with verified work emails. Milan is the largest hub.

This list covers company matches for research centers associated with Italy, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed November 6, 2026.

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18,660Contacts tracked
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The 25 largest research centers based in Italy

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 238 company matches for research centers based in Italy, ordered by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase, largest first. Recorded Nov 6, 2026. The RevenueBase SmartSearch column shows Exact match membership in this saved search. Click a contact count to view that company's people. Totals use company locations recorded by RevenueBase; the displayed preview is a smaller selection.
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1Exact matchRome, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 20265,001-10,0005,880 contacts →

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“The National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of…”

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2Exact matchMilan, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0003,396 contacts →

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“Within Gruppo San Donato we are a clinical, scientific and university centre of high specialization, since 1971.”

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3Exact matchLecce, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-200488 contacts →

Exact match

“The Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) is a research centre on climate science and policy.”

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4Exact matchCapua, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500418 contacts →

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“CIRA, the Italian Aerospace Research Centre, is a private-public company established in 1984, whose shareholders are the National Research Council, the Campania Region and Italian…”

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5Exact matchMilan, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,000238 contacts →

Exact match

“Pagina non ufficiale”

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6Exact matchBolzano, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-200124 contacts →

Exact match

“South Tyrol's Innovation District”

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7Exact matchTurin, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5080 contacts →

Exact match

“Centro di Istruzione e Ricerca”

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8Exact matchSesto Fiorentino, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-20066 contacts →

Exact match

“A European reference point for research with light waves, based on a fundamental multi-disciplinary approach.”

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9Exact matchMilan, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5060 contacts →

Exact match

“The Information Society Law Research Center (ISLC) at the University of Milan is a multidisciplinary Research Center, founded in 2017 inside the “Cesare Beccaria” Department of…”

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10Exact matchMilan, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5059 contacts →

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“Founded in Milan in 1980, CSIL is an independent research institute, specialising in applied economics, industry competitiveness, small business, market analysis, evaluation and…”

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11Exact matchMilan, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5048 contacts →

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“Dove il business incontra la ricerca” Nato nel 2017, CRSL - Centro Ricerche e Studi dei Laghi è un organismo di ricerca iscritto all’Anagrafe Nazionale delle Ricerche del MIUR ed…”

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12Exact matchOrbassano (to), ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5043 contacts →

Exact match

“The main goal of NICO research center is to study the fundamental biological mechanisms of nervous system function, whose knowledge is essential for the development of innovative…”

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13Exact matchPrato, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5041 contacts →

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“ARCO is university centre for research, consulting and training specialized in locale development, social economy, inclusive development, M&E, impact evaluation and sustainable…”

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14Exact matchTurin, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5039 contacts →

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“The ISI Foundation is a private, non-profit research center established in 1983 in Turin, Italy.”

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15Exact matchPisa, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5035 contacts →

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“The Research Center "E.Piaggio" is an interdisciplinary research center of the University of Pisa dedicated to frontier research in the study and engineering of Natural and…”

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16Exact matchCorsico, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-20034 contacts →

Exact match

“Investigazioni scientifiche, Polo Universitario e Centro di Ricerca”

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17Exact matchFlorence, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-20032 contacts →

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“The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies is an inter-disciplinary research centre at the heart of the European University Institute (EUI).”

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18Exact matchVerona, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5029 contacts →

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“The Centro Ricerche Cliniche di Verona (CRC) was founded in 2005 by the G.B.”

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19Exact matchMilan, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-20023 contacts →

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“MOX is part of the Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano.”

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20Exact matchNaples, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5020 contacts →

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“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.”

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21Exact matchModena, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5020 contacts →

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“AImageLab is a research laboratory of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari" at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.”

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22Exact matchVerona, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5018 contacts →

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“Alma Iura (dal latino "diritti prolifici","diritti fecondi") nasce nel 2005 ed è un Centro per la formazione e gli studi giuridici, bancari e finanziari.”

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23Exact matchRome, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5017 contacts →

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“Il Cybersecurity National Lab è il laboratorio nazionale dedicato alla ricerca, formazione e cultura della sicurezza digitale in Italia.”

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24Exact matchGorizia, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5017 contacts →

Exact match

“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.”

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25Exact matchTurin, ItalyHQ recorded Nov 6, 202611-5016 contacts →

Exact match

“The SMILIES “reSilient coMputer archItectures and LIfE Sciences” group at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino is a highly…”

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Research centers based in Italy at a glance

As of Nov 6, 2026
46.1%Verified-email coverage
78.4Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
15.1%Largest-city concentration · Milan
Nov 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
83
11-50
114
51-200
23
201-500
8
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
4
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
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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 238 companies.

How this list was built

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Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Company records associated with Italy whose business descriptions match “research centers” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
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Public preview
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Match quality
RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
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 displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 8,605 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
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What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?

RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “research centers”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.

How many research centers are there based in Italy?

RevenueBase identified 238 company matches for research centers associated with Italy as of November 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.

What is the largest company on this list?

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.

Which city has the most research centers?

Milan leads with 36 company records, followed by Rome (32) and Turin (11).

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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 SmartSearch, 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.