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Top 25 Research institutes based in the Netherlands
RevenueBase identified 191 research institutes headquartered in the Netherlands as of September 2026 and tracks 11,475 professional contacts across them, including 4,999 with verified work emails. Amsterdam is the largest hub.
This list covers research institutes headquartered in the Netherlands, 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.
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The 25 largest research institutes based in the Netherlands
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TNO is an independent organisation for applied research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 471 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Erasmus School of Economics is a school with an international reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the fields of the environment, nature and spatial planning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than 200 people work together at the Netherlands Insitute of Ecology on basic and strategic ecological research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Within the domain of the green living environment, we develop knowledge and solutions that contribute to sustainable land and water use, nature restoration and a climate-resilient…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AMOLF carries out research on the fundamental physics and design principles of natural and man-made functional complex matter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Movisie is hét landelijk kennisinstituut voor een samenhangende aanpak van sociale vraagstukken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SEO Amsterdam Economics conducts applied economic research on behalf of both public and private sector clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) does scientific research aimed at contributing to the economic decision-making process of politicians and policymakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At imec the Netherlands a team of more than 130 researchers with 25 different nationalities work together on the latest innovations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, is one of the oldest Advanced Study Institutes in Europe committed to promoting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Het Nederlands Studiecentrum Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving (NSCR) is het nationale onderzoeksinstituut dat zich toelegt op fundamenteel wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) is a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Delft…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Faculty of Science of Radboud University has taken a leading position worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Het Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht Onderzoek SIA financiert en stimuleert praktijkgericht onderzoek van hogescholen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The main fields studied are health, welfare, social security, the labour market and education, with a particular focus on the interfaces between these fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Athena believes that science should actively contribute to a healthy, inclusive and sustainable world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a research institute with socially engaged researchers and consultants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The T.M.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Datacentrum (WODC) is het kennisinstituut voor de rechtsstaat.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The African Studies Centre Leiden is the only multidisciplinary academic research institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “School CAPHRI is one of Maastricht University’s largest research institutes, with a focus on Healthcare Innovation and Public Health Research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ZorgfocuZ is een onderzoeksbureau dat zich richt op de zorg- en welzijnssector en het sociaal domein.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Nederlandse School voor Openbaar Bestuur (NSOB) is een hoogwaardig onderwijs- en onderzoeksinstituut in het hart van de hofstad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At HLB B.V, we are committed to advancing sustainable agriculture through scientific excellence and practical solutions.” 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 the Netherlands at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Netherlands, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Netherlands, over 191 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 the Netherlands 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 Netherlands 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, 4,999 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 the Netherlands?
RevenueBase identified 191 research institutes headquartered in the Netherlands 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?
TNO, headquartered in The Hague, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most research institutes?
Amsterdam leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Utrecht (16) and Rotterdam (14).
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 4,999 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 191 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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