research institute
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organization whose primary purpose is research
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- Research institutes
- topic's main category
- Category:Research institutes
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- Suzana Lazović
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- amenity=research_institute
- equivalent class
- schema.org/ResearchOrganization
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Encyclopedic overview
Researcher working in a laboratory A research institute, research centre, 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.
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