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Top 25 Research institutes based in Spain

Name: Research institutes based in Spain
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 328 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 328 research institutes headquartered in Spain as of September 2026 and tracks 28,293 professional contacts across them, including 4,880 with verified work emails. Madrid is the largest hub.

This list covers research institutes headquartered in Spain, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest research institutes based in Spain

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 328 research institutes based in Spain, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research institutes: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Universidad DE Granada	Indirect evidence	Granada, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	5,001-10,000	6,007 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “La apuesta por la investigación de calidad ha colocado a la Universidad de Granada en puestos destacados de los diferentes “rankings” a nivel nacional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2	IRTA	Strong evidence	Caldas De Montbui, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	852 contacts →
	Strong evidence “IRTA is a research institute owned by the Government of Catalonia adscribed to the Department of Agriculture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	Universidad DE Cantabria	Indirect evidence	Santander, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	714 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Cantabria (UC) es una institución pública creada en 1972.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4	Leitat Technological Center	Indirect evidence	Terrassa, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	429 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Leitat is a technology centre at both state and European level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Ceit Research Center	Partial evidence	San Sebastián, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	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, 2026
6	Vicomtech	Indirect evidence	San Sebastian, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	280 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Your R&D partner for smart digital solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Centre Tecnològic DE Telecomunicacions DE Catalunya Cttc	Partial evidence	Castelldefels, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	273 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) is a non-profit research center, from a public initiative and with a high degree of self-financing, open to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	Imibic	Strong evidence	Córdoba, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	272 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba – IMIBIC, is a joint Institute of the University of Cordoba (UCO), the Reina Sofia University Hospital, and the Junta de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	Instituto DE Agroquímica Y Tecnología DE Alimentos Iata Csic	Partial evidence	Paterna, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	252 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The 'Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimento'(IATA) is one of the top CSIC centres in the area of Food Science and Technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	Cidetec	Partial evidence	San Sebastián, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	239 contacts →
	Partial evidence “CIDETEC is a private organization for applied research founded in 1997 that seeks to contribute value to companies by harnessing, generating and transferring technological…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	Institut DE Ciències DEL MAR - Csic	Strong evidence	Barcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	239 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM, Institute of Marine Sciences in English) is the fourth-largest research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12	Instituto DE Investigación Sanitaria Aragón - IIS Aragón	Partial evidence	Zaragoza, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	181 contacts →
	Partial evidence “El IIS Aragón es el Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Complejo Hospitalario formado por los Hospitales Docentes y Universitarios “Lozano Blesa” y “Miguel Servet”, la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	Instituto DE Ciencia DE Materiales DE Madrid Icmm - Csic	Strong evidence	Madrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	155 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM) is an institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)(Spanish National Research Council) founded in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14	Fundació Institut D'investigació Sanitària Illes Balears Idisba	Partial evidence	Palma De Mallorca, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	137 contacts →
	Partial evidence “La Fundació Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Iles Balears (IdISBa) es creà el 23 de desembre de 2013.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	Institut DE Recerca Biomèdica DE Lleida Fundació Dr. Pifarré - Irblleida	Indirect evidence	Lleida, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	137 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “La nostra recerca, la salut del futur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	Barcelona School Of Economics	Strong evidence	Barcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	136 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Barcelona School of Economics is an institution for scientific cooperation for research and education in Economics, Finance, and Data Science.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	IBSAL	Partial evidence	Salamanca, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	135 contacts →
	Partial evidence “El Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca es un Instituto de Investigación sanitaria acreditado por el Instituto de Salud Carlos en febrero de 2013 y que se constituye…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	Bc3	Strong evidence	Leioa, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	133 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is an international and multidisciplinary research institute based in Bilbao, Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	CIQUS	Indirect evidence	Santiago De Compostela, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	125 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The CiQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) addresses challenges in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, New functional Materials and Synthetic Technologies for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	ITC	Partial evidence	Castellón, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	119 contacts →
	Partial evidence “R&D Technology Institute ITC pursues to provide solid support for production companies in the defence and enhancement of their strategic positioning in the current global context…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21	Institut D'investigació Biomèdica DE Girona Idibgi	Strong evidence	Salt, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	115 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Girona Biomedical Research Institute Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Idiapjgol	Strong evidence	Barcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	115 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Foundation University Institute for Primary Health Care Research Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol) is a center of reference in research and promotion of health at the first level…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	Centro DE Biotecnología Y Genómica DE Plantas	Indirect evidence	Madrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	113 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “La Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) aprueba la creación de un Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas en octubre de 2005, a propuesta de un grupo de profesores del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	Grupo Análisis E Investigación	Partial evidence	Madrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	112 contacts →
	Partial evidence “AeI es un Instituto de Investigación que realiza Estudios de Mercado, Marketing y Opinión, desde 1987.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25	Imdea Nanociencia	Partial evidence	Madrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	110 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Nanoscience is a fast-developing research field with an immense range of potential applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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 Spain at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

17.2%Verified-email coverage

86.3Average contacts per company

51-200Median size (employees)

18.3%Largest-city concentration · Madrid

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

113

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Spain, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Spain, over 328 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 Spain 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 Spain 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, 4,880 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 institutes by metro

Research institutes in Madrid60
Research institutes in Barcelona37
Research institutes in Valencia28

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 Spain?

RevenueBase identified 328 research institutes headquartered in Spain 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?

Universidad DE Granada, headquartered in Granada, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most research institutes?

Madrid leads with 60 headquartered companies, followed by Barcelona (37) and Valencia (28).

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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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.