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Top 25 Research institutes based in France
RevenueBase identified 522 research institutes headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 61,610 professional contacts across them, including 12,170 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers research institutes headquartered in France, 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.
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 institutes based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,327 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “INRAE, l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, est un acteur majeur de la recherche et de l’innovation créé le 1er janvier 2020.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,484 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “World-leading research and technological innovation are an integral part of its DNA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Compte officiel de l’École normale supérieure | PSL composante de l'Université PSL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,867 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “INRAE, the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, created on 1st of January 2020, is a major player in research and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 991 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AgroParisTech est l'institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l’environnement, sous tutelle des ministères en charge de l'agriculture et de l’enseignement supérieur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 557 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus d’un siècle et sans cesse tourné vers l’avenir, le LNE a pour mission d’accompagner et de susciter l’innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 488 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARVALIS is a technical institute in charge of applied research on agriculture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Première école d'ingénieurs-es de Normandie et figurant parmi les principaux établissements français, l'INSA Rouen occupe une place majeure dans le paysage de la formation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IRIT was founded in 1990.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 11 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grenoble INP – UGA est un établissement public d'enseignement supérieur de l'Université Grenoble Alpes, réunissant écoles d'ingénieur·es, de management et des laboratoires de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FEMTO-ST (Franche-Comté Electronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique – Sciences et Technologies) is a joint research unit which is affiliated with the French National Centre of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Institute of Technology Saint Exupéry (IRT Saint Exupéry), dedicated to aeronautics, space and embedded systems, is one of eight Technology Institutes accredited by the French…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EURECOM is a Graduate school and Research Centre in digital science located in the Sophia Antipolis technology park (French Riviera), a major European place for telecommunications…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA propose, en cinq ans, un parcours intellectuel ambitieux destiné à former les décideurs de demain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ICube UMR 7357 - Laboratoire des sciences de l'ingénieur, de l'informatique et de l'imagerie Le laboratoire des sciences de l'ingénieur, de l'informatique et de l'imagerie…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CSA, which has 40 years of experience in the field of market research and opinion polling and 130 employees, provides companies and institutions with a detailed understanding of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L'ISIR (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique) est une Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR sous la tutelle de Sorbonne Université, du CNRS et de l’Inserm (ERL-U1150).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IRISA, a joint research unit IRISA is today one of the largest French research laboratory (more than 850 people) in the field of computer science and information technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L'Institut de Recherche Technologique Jules Verne est l'un des 8 retenu au niveau national dans le cadre des Investissements d’avenir.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMS Bordeaux: Leading Innovation in Research and Technology IMS Bordeaux stands as a major player in research both in France and internationally, known for our pioneering work and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1959, the French-German research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) is a binational institution jointly operated by the French and German Ministries of Defence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pôle d'analyses et de recherche interdépartemental de Normandie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’École normale supérieure de Rennes, est un établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel dont la mission est de former les hauts cadres scientifiques…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Loria, Laboratoire lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, est une Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7503), commune à plusieurs établissements : le CNRS…” 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 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 research institutes.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of research institutes, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Research institutes based in France at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 522 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 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 research institutes, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 12,170 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
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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 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 research institutes are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 522 research institutes headquartered in France 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?
INRAE, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most research institutes?
Paris leads with 100 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (19) and Toulouse (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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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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