Back معهد أبحاث Arabic Elmi-tədqiqat institutu Azerbaijani Научноизследователски институт Bulgarian গবেষণা প্রতিষ্ঠান Bengali/Bangla Centre de recerca Catalan Forschungseinrichtung German Instituto de investigación Spanish Teadusinstituut Estonian Ikerketa institutu Basque بنیاد پژوهشی Persian
A research institute, research centre, research center or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural science research, there are also many research institutes in the social science as well, especially for sociological and historical research purposes.