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Top 25 University research institutes based in Spain

Name: University research institutes based in Spain
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 70 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 70 university research institutes headquartered in Spain as of September 2026 and tracks 18,313 professional contacts across them, including 3,658 with verified work emails. Valencia is the largest hub.

This list covers university 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 22, 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 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest university research institutes based in Spain

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 70 university research institutes based in Spain, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to university 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	Universitat DE Barcelona	Strong evidence	Barcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	5,001-10,000	8,980 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The University of Barcelona (UB) is Spain’s leading research university, publishing more research than any other Spanish institution with the exception of the Spanish National…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2	Universidad DE Granada	Partial evidence	Granada, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	5,001-10,000	6,007 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
3	University Of Alicante	Partial evidence	Sant Vicent Del Raspeig, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	965 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The University of Alicante (Valencian: Universitat d'Alacant; Spanish: Universidad de Alicante), also known by the acronym UA, was established in 1979 on the basis of the Center…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4	Universidad DE Cantabria	Partial evidence	Santander, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	714 contacts →
	Partial evidence “La Universidad de Cantabria (UC) es una institución pública creada en 1972.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5	Ceit Research Center	Strong evidence	San Sebastián, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	328 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Ceit is a non profit research centre that was created by the University of Navarra in 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6	Instituto DE Investigación Tecnológica	Strong evidence	Madrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	109 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) is a non-profit institute belonging to the School of Engineering (ICAI) of Comillas Pontifical University located in Madrid.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7	Institut Barcelona D Estudis Internacionals	Strong evidence	Barcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	100 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) was created in 2004 as a joint initiative between five public universities in the Barcelona metropolitan area to promote…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8	Imdea Agua	Partial evidence	Alcalá De Henares, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	77 contacts →
	Partial evidence “El Instituto IMDEA Agua es una iniciativa de la Comunidad de Madrid para llevar a cabo una labor investigadora de excelencia y para aportar los elementos de innovación necesaria…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	Ingenio Csic-Upv	Strong evidence	Valencia, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	58 contacts →
	Strong evidence “INGENIO was created in as a joint Institute of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research [CSIC] and the Polytechnic University of Valencia [UPV].” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10	Instituto Universitario Ignacio DA Riva IDR UPM	Strong evidence	Madrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Strong evidence “El Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad "Ignacio Da Riva" de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IDR/UPM), es un centro de investigación y docencia del más alto nivel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11	Aragon Institute Of Engineering Research I3a	Strong evidence	Zaragoza, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	45 contacts →
	Strong evidence “I3A is an interdisciplinary University Research Institute specialised in applied research and engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Instituto DE Biocomputacion Y Fisica DE Sistemas Complejos - Bifi	Strong evidence	Zaragoza, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	40 contacts →
	Strong evidence “BIFI is a research institute from the University of Zaragoza that promotes interdisciplinarity to face the big challenges of innovation and development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13	ICEI	Partial evidence	Pozuelo De Alarcón, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	38 contacts →
	Partial evidence “El Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) se crea por decisión de Junta de Gobierno de la UCM de 10 de julio de 1997, con el objetivo de constituir un centro de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14	IBB UAB	Strong evidence	Cerdanyola Del Valles, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	37 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB) was created in 1970 as a research institute of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) to promote fundamental biological…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	IRTIC	Strong evidence	Paterna, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	33 contacts →
	Strong evidence “University Research Institute on Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC)” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16	Itis UMA	Partial evidence	Málaga, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	25 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Instituto de Tecnología e Ingeniería del Software "José María Troya Linero".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17	Tides Instituto DE Turismo Y Desarrollo Económico Sostenible	Strong evidence	Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “INVESTIGACIÓN APLICADA – TIDES El Instituto Universitario TiDES, Turismo y Desarrollo Económico Sostenible de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), se constituye…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18	Instituto DE Investigación EN Ingeniería I3e-Umh	Strong evidence	Elche, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “El Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Elche de la Universidad Miguel Hernández, I3E-UMH, se concibe desde sus inicios como nexo integrador de las capacidades y…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	Itaca Institute	Strong evidence	Valencia, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (ITACA) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has as its mission the improvement of our society through the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20	Ciagro-Umh	Strong evidence	Orihuela, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	11 contacts →
	Strong evidence “El Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Agroalimentaria y Agroambiental de la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche es un instituto universitario dedicado principalmente a la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21	ICTEA	Strong evidence	Oviedo/uviéu, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are an university institute with clear as well as ambitious objectives: enhance excellence research in the University of Oviedo as well as achieve being an example in national…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22	Instituto DE Matemáticas DE LA Universidad DE Sevilla Imus	Strong evidence	Sevilla, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Strong evidence “El Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla (IMUS) toma su nombre del Profesor D.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23	Fundación Euskoiker	Partial evidence	Bilbao, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Fundación Universidad Empresa dedicada a la gestión de proyectos de investigación, asesorías, formación, trabajos, análisis, etc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Instituto Centro DE Investigación Operativa	Strong evidence	Elche, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	8 contacts →
	Strong evidence “El Instituto Universitario de Investigación “Centro de Investigación Operativa” (CIO) se crea en el año 2005 con el objetivo de apoyar el desarrollo y la práctica de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	Citeec	Strong evidence	A Coruña, SpainHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	5 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Centre of Technological Innovation in Building and Civil Engineering (CITEEC) is a research centre of the Universidade da Coruña (UDC) specialized in R&D&I within the multiple…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: university 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 university research institutes.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of university research institutes, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name university 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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University research institutes based in Spain at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

20.0%Verified-email coverage

261.6Average contacts per company

51-200Median size (employees)

11.4%Largest-city concentration · Valencia

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

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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 70 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 university 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 “university 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 university 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 university 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, 3,658 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 22, 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.

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 university 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 university research institutes are there based in Spain?

RevenueBase identified 70 university 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?

Universitat DE Barcelona, headquartered in Barcelona, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most university research institutes?

Valencia leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Barcelona (7) and Madrid (6).

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 22, 2026.

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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 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.