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Research institutes & think tanks in Romania_

As of 4 November 2026, 511 research institutes & think tanks companies are based in Romania; 2 are hiring right now and Bucharest has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
511
Hiring now
2 · 0 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Humanities social research projects · 103
Top city
Bucharest · 48
Parent market
Public, community & associations · 12,974
511research institutes & think tanks companies in Romania
2hiring today
0opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Research institutes & think tanks in Romania, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Humanities social research projects
10320%
Multidisciplinary research institutes
6312%
Biomedical research groups
6212%
Other research institutes & think tanks
5811%
University research labs
5210%
Policy think tanks
5010%
Eu technology research consortia
469%
Environmental & agri research
459%
Cultural heritage research projects
387%
Health services research groups
336%
Biodiversity conservation research
326%
Other nonprofit civic associations
184%
Advocacy campaign nonprofits
173%
Professional bodies
163%
Ai & society research
122%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
135 · 0
2-10 employees
138 · 1
11-50 employees
181 · 0
51-200 employees
45 · 0
201-500 employees
11 · 0
501-1000 employees
1 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Bucharest
489%
Cluj-Napoca
377%
Iaşi
204%
Bucureşti 15
92%
Bucureşti 56
92%
Măgurele
82%
Sibiu
82%
Timişoara
82%
Braşov
71%
Bucureşti 22
71%
Sector
61%
Târgu Mureş
61%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest research institutes & think tanks companies in Romania

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

511 research institutes & think tanks companies in Romania.

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04 — What they run

The stack of research institutes & think tanks in Romania

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511 research institutes & think tanks companies are based in Romania; 2 are hiring right now and Bucharest has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/romania/research_institutes_and_think_tanks)
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  • 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.
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Research institutes & think tanks in Romania: questions

How many research institutes & think tanks companies are there in Romania?

511 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, multidisciplinary research institutes, biomedical research groups. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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