Shipvane · 4 AE roles
Marco E. · joined Cargolio
Fleetora · first roles in DEResearch institutes & think tanks in Italy_
As of 4 November 2026, 4,293 research institutes & think tanks companies are based in Italy; 9 are hiring right now and Roma has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 4,293
- Hiring now
- 9 · 1 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Humanities social research projects · 809
- Top city
- Roma · 410
- Parent market
- Public, community & associations · 78,210
Research institutes & think tanks in Italy, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Humanities social research projects | 809 | 19% |
| Biomedical research groups | 645 | 15% |
| Eu technology research consortia | 508 | 12% |
| Other research institutes & think tanks | 424 | 10% |
| Cultural heritage research projects | 397 | 9% |
| Multidisciplinary research institutes | 310 | 7% |
| University research labs | 298 | 7% |
| Environmental & agri research | 279 | 6% |
| Biodiversity conservation research | 258 | 6% |
| Local history societies | 220 | 5% |
| Health services research groups | 209 | 5% |
| Policy think tanks | 201 | 5% |
| Professional bodies | 157 | 4% |
| Other nonprofit civic associations | 126 | 3% |
| Cultural arts associations | 111 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 4 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 3,407 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 696 · 4 |
| 51-200 employees | 141 · 2 |
| 201-500 employees | 23 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 10 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 6 · 0 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 5 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Roma | 410 | 10% |
| Milano | 249 | 6% |
| Torino | 113 | 3% |
| Bologna | 78 | 2% |
| Firenze | 77 | 2% |
| Napoli | 68 | 2% |
| Genova | 51 | 1% |
| Padova | 49 | 1% |
| Verona | 35 | 1% |
| Trieste | 33 | 1% |
| Milan | 31 | 1% |
| Rome | 30 | 1% |
The biggest research institutes & think tanks companies in Italy
The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
Filter by niche, size, city or hiring, and open the decision makers with verified e-mails.
Free plan: 1,000 records, no card. The first 20 are above; e-mails are verified at the mail server when you open them.
The stack of research institutes & think tanks in Italy
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of public, community & associations in Italy
Public, community & associations in Italy, the whole market →
Nonprofit civic associations · 34,581 →
Amateur sports clubs · 16,168 →
Charitable foundations · 15,383 →
Membership associations & unions · 13,356 →
Churches congregations · 6,510 →
Public programmes & agencies · 4,775 →
Municipal government · 1,433 →
Justice & public safety · 207 →
Quote the sentence with the date and the link. The numbers change daily; the link always shows the current ones.
4,293 research institutes & think tanks companies are based in Italy; 9 are hiring right now and Roma has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/italy/research_institutes_and_think_tanks)
Read from the source, not self-reported
Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →
- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Research institutes & think tanks in Italy: questions
How many research institutes & think tanks companies are there in Italy?
4,293 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Public, community & associations → Research institutes & think tanks → leaf niches such as humanities social research projects, biomedical research groups, eu technology research consortia. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
Can I get the list?
Yes: the first 20 largest are on this page; the full list with verified e-mails is in the product. Counting is free.
Get this segment your way
The same data as a search, over MCP and the API, as bulk files, or pushed to you as it changes.
Every research institutes & think tanks company in Italy,
with the person who decides
Filter on the segment and the country, and get 1,000 records free.