think tank
A think tank, or public policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governme ...
National Agricultural Technology Institute
The National Agricultural Technology Institute (), commonly known as INTA, is an Argentine federal organisation responsible for agriculture. INTA is an extension agency in charge of the generation, adaptation and diffusion of technologies, knowle ...
National Institute of Industrial Technology
The National Industrial Technology Institute (), commonly known as INTI, is an Argentine federal agency in charge of the developing of Industrial technology.
It was created in 1957.
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National Scientific and Technical Research Council
The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (, CONICET) is an Argentina, Argentine Government of Argentina, government agency which directs and co-ordinates most of the scientific and technical research done in List of universities i ...
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a defence and strategic policy think tank based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, founded by the Australian government, and funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with o ...
Centre for Independent Studies
The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is an Australian think tank founded in 1976 by Greg Lindsay. The CIS specialises in public policy research and publishes material in areas such as economics, education, culture and foreign policy. Alth ...
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Centre for Policy Development
Centre for Policy Development (CPD) is a public policy think tank in Australia.
History
John Menadue AO was the founding chair of the organisation. He had served as Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet for prime ministers Gough Whitlam and ...
Development Policy Centre
The Development Policy Centre (Devpol) is an aid and development policy think tank based at the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Devpol undertakes independent research ...
Menzies Research Centre
The Menzies Research Centre (MRC) is an Australian centre-right public policy think tank aligned with the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party.
History
The Menzies Research Centre was founded in 1994 and is named in honour of Sir Rob ...
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) is a university-based institute that is situated in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. It is Australia's oldest-established centre for the study of ...
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Sydney Institute
The Sydney Institute is a privately funded Australian policy forum founded on the 23 of August, 1989. The institute took over the resources of the New South Wales division of the Institute of Public Affairs.
Columnist and writer Gerard Henderso ...
Centre for Policy Dialogue
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) is a non-governmental think-tank in Bangladesh. It was established in 1993 by Rehman Sobhan, its founder chairman, with support from leading civil society institutions in Bangladesh
History
In 1993, Reh ...
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Making Our Economy Right
Making Our Economy Right (MOER) is a free market think tank in Bangladesh. Headquartered in Dhaka, the institute was established in 1991 by Nizam Ahmad. MOER is sponsored by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Atlas Foundation in the United ...
International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group (ICG; also known as the Crisis Group) is a global non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in 1995. It is a think tank, used by policymakers and academics, conducting research and analysis on global crises. ...
Institute of Applied Economic Research
The Institute for Applied Economic Research ( Portuguese: ''Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada'', Ipea) is a Brazilian government-led research organization dedicated to generating macroeconomical, sectorial and thematic studies in order to b ...
Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
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Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council is a Canadian independent, non-partisan research and educational institution founded in 1954 whose objective is to promote the economic development of Atlantic Canada.
It accomplishes this by:
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Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada is an independent, non-profit applied-research organization based in Canada. It aims to help Canada's leaders make informed, evidence-based decisions using non-partisan and non-ideological analysis.
The organiza ...
Fraser Institute
The Fraser Institute is a Canadian Conservatism in Canada, conservative public policy think tank registered as a Charitable organization, charity. It is headquartered in Vancouver, with additional offices in Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. It has ...
Institute for Research on Public Policy
The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP; ) is an independent, national, bilingual, not-for-profit organization based in Montreal, Quebec. Its mission is to "improve public policy in Canada by generating research, providing insight and i ...
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an independent think tank founded in 1990 working to shape and inform international policy on sustainable development governance. The institute has three offices in Canada - Winni ...
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Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is a Canadian legal advocacy group, advocacy organization specializing in a libertarian approach to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The libertarian organisation has partnered w ...
Montreal Economic Institute
The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) is a non-profit research organization (or think tank) based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It aims at promoting economic liberalism through economic education of the general public and what it regards as effici ...
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese state research institute and think tank. It is a ministry-level institution under the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The CASS is the highest academic institution and c ...
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...
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Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS; ) was founded in 1958 and is China, China's oldest think tank for the humanities and social sciences. It is the country's second largest such institution, after the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ...
European Council on Foreign Relations
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decis ...
Demos Helsinki
Demos Helsinki is a Finnish think tank. Their main research focus is on governance and societal innovation for the development of a democratic and environmentally sustainable society. The organisation receives a mix of public and private fundin ...
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European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE; ) is a network-based international and independent hub for practitioners and experts based in Helsinki, Finland. The Hybrid CoE focuses on responses to Hybrid warfare, h ...
Conférence Olivaint
The ''Conférence Olivaint'' is a French youth association, recognised as being of general interest.
Founded in fall 1874, it is the oldest student association in France. Its mission is to provide young people with training in public life, nota ...
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European Union Institute for Security Studies
The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is the EU’s think tank for foreign and security policy.
Its core mission is to provide analysis on security and defence issues, and organise discussion forums to help formulate EU p ...
Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne
The Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne ("Research and Study Group for European Civilization"), better known as GRECE, is a French Ethnic nationalism, ethnonationalist think-tank, think tank founded in 1968 to p ...
Institut français des relations internationales
The Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri; English ''French Institute of International Relations'') is a think tank dedicated to International relations, international affairs, based in Paris, France.
Overview
Ifri was establi ...
Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), founded in 1947, is an international academic society of Economist, economists, Political philosophy, political philosophers, and other Intelligentsia, intellectuals who share a classical liberal outlook. It is hea ...
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Saint-Simon Foundation The Saint-Simon Foundation () was a French think tank that was created in 1982 and brought together public intellectuals, Journalist, journalists, senior civil servants, business leaders, trade unionists, and academics. It terminated its activity in ...
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Sport and Citizenship
Sport and Citizenship was founded in 2007, shortly after the adoption of the European Commission's White Paper on sport. It is the first and only European think tank which works on the analysis of sporting politics and the study of sport's societ ...
Bonn International Center for Conversion
Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This m ...
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation ('' German: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.; Abbreviation: KAS'') is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation's head ...
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (; SWP) is a German think tank in international relations and security studies. A semi-official organization with close links to the federal government, it advises the Bundestag (the Po ...
Centre for Policy Research
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) is an Indian think tank focusing on public policy. Established in 1973 and located in New Delhi, it is one of the national social science research institutes recognized by the Indian Council of Social Scie ...
Kochi
Kochi ( , ), List of renamed Indian cities and states#Kerala, formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the Ernakulam district, district of Ernakulam in the ...
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Kerala
Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...
Foundation for Democratic Reforms
The Foundation for Democratic Reforms is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent research institution founded by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian Administrative Service officer turned politician and a political activist based in Hyderabad. ...
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Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
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Telangana
Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...
Observer Research Foundation
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) is an independent global think tank based in Delhi, India. The foundation has three centres in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. ORF provides potentially viable inputs for policy and decision-makers in the Indian ...
New Delhi
New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...
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Kolkata
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...
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*RisingIndia ThinkTank (Venture Studio, Bangalore) – Chittorgarh, Rajasthan
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New Delhi
New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...
Institute of International and European Affairs
The Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA; ) is an Irish policy think tank focusing on European and international policy trends based in Dublin, Ireland. It is known for its seminars and speaking events which attract notable int ...
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) was an Israel-based think tank with an affiliated office in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1984 by its president, Professor Robert Loewenberg.
Political stance
In the US, IASPS ...
Israel Democracy Institute
The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI; ), established in 1991, is an independent research center that defines itself as being dedicated to strengthening the foundations of Israeli democracy. It is based in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
The Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), formerly the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), is an Israeli think tank specializing in public diplomacy and foreign policy founded in 1976. JCPA publishes the biennial jo ...
Shalem Center
The Shalem Center (, ''Merkaz Shalem'') was a Jerusalem research institute that supported academic work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, archaeology, economics, and ...
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute is a center for interdisciplinary study in the humanities and social sciences, and the development of new ways of addressing questions of global concern that hold special importance for Israeli society and the r ...
Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing list of global issues, global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in R ...
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European University Institute
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...
Institute for International Political Studies
The Institute for International Political Studies (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, ''ISPI''), founded in 1934, is the oldest think tank in Italy. It offers diploma and postgraduate education specializing in international rela ...
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Istituto Affari Internazionali
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) is an Italian international relations think tank, and non-profit organisation founded in 1965 by Altiero Spinelli. It is ranked among the global top-20 think tanks in the "Foreign Policy and International ...
Institute of Developing Economies
Institute of Developing Economies (IDE; アジア経済研究所) is a semi-governmental research institute under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the largest institute on social science in Japan. Current status is a body of the J ...
National Institute for Research Advancement The National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA; ) is a Japanese independent policy research think tank based in Tokyo founded in 1974 under the ''National Institute for Research Advancement Act''. It is funded through an endowment comprisin ...
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) is located at the American University of Beirut (AUB). This independent institute develops policy research in the Arab region. It is currently headed by Joseph Bahout. The ...
Center for European Renewal
The Center for European Renewal (CER) is a Pan-European identity, pan-European Conservatism, conservative organization based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The CER was founded in the summer of 2007 by a group of mainly European conservatives. The ...
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) is the largest independent think tank in New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () ...
Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies
The Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS, ) is an independent research think tank founded by the Pakistan Air Force with specializations in the domains of aerospace, emerging technologies, security, and foresight. It was inaugurated by A ...
Pakistan Academy of Sciences
The Pakistan Academy of Sciences () (Abbreviations and Acronyms, abbreviated as: PAS), is a learned society of sciences, which described itself as "a repository of the highest scientific talent available in the country."
Established in 1953 in ...
Foreign Service Institute
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States federal government's primary training institution for members of the U.S. foreign service community, preparing American diplomats as well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreign ...
Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies
The Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST); ) is an independent, for-profit Russian think tank located in downtown Moscow.
CAST conducts research and analysis on Russian conventional arms trade, Russia's defense industry, mi ...
Institute for Election Systems Development
An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body.
In some countries, institutes ca ...
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Institute for US and Canadian Studies
Institute for US and Canadian Studies (Russian: Институт США и Канады РАН, ''Institut SShA i Kanadi RAN'') is a Russian think tank which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specializing on the comprehensive American s ...
Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) or (RISI) or (RISY) () is a Russian research and analytical center formed by decree by former Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin in 1992.
Many of its employees are retired senior Russ ...
King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is an advisory organization specializing in energy economics, climate, and sustainability that seeks to advance Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi ...
Institute for Security Studies
The Institute for Security Studies, also known as ISS or ISS Africa (to distinguish itself from other similarly named institutes in other parts of the world), described itself as follows: "an African organisation which aims to enhance human se ...
South Korea
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Korea Development Institute
The Korea Development Institute (KDI; ) is a Korean government agency
A government agency or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is ...
Samsung Economic Research Institute
Samsung Global Research (SGR) is a private-sector think tank in South Korea, covering various research areas; from high-tech to issues and trends shaping the East Asian
East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mon ...
Korea Institute of Public Administration
The Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) is a government-sponsored research institute in South Korea, established in October 1991. They do research not just on current issues of public administration but historical ones as well, as in 2 ...
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Sejong Institute
Sejong Institute () is a non-profit, independent organization for public interest and a think tank in South Korea, dedicated to developing strategies and policies in areas of foreign and security affairs and Korean unification, regional issu ...
Spain
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
The Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) is a Spanish think tank headquartered in Barcelona, devoted to research in the field of international relations. It defines itself as an "independent institution" that studies specifically ...
Elcano Royal Institute
The Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos''; RIE) is a think tank based in Madrid, Spain.
It was created on 26 November 2001 a ...
IDEAS Foundation for progress
The Ideas Foundation for Progress (), also known as the Fundación IDEAS (IDEAS Foundation), was a Spanish think tank that works on political ideas and proposals for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). In this regard, it integrates the fo ...
LIRNEasia
LIRNE''asia'' (Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies ''Asia'') is an information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation think-tank active in the Asia Pacific region. The organization is incorporated under Sri Lanka ...
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade a ...
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German ...
Industrial Technology Research Institute
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI; ) is a technology research and development institution in Taiwan. It was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, with branch offices in the United States, U.S., ...
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Institute for Information Industry
The Institute for Information Industry (III; zh, c=資訊工業策進會, p=Zīxùn Gōngyè Cèjìnhuì, abbreviated zh, c=資策會, p=Zīcèhuì) was established in 1979 as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to support the communication ...
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD; ) is a non-partisan non-profit organisation headquartered in Taipei. The foundation, established in June 2003, is both initiated and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China. It ...
Centre of Policy and Legal Reform
The Centre of Policy and Legal Reform (; ''Tsentr polityko-pravovykh reform'') is a Ukrainian non-governmental think tank founded in 1996. Activity
The CPLR is promoting institutional organization of Ukraine as the state which ensures human rig ...
United Nations University
The is the think tank and academic arm of the United Nations. Headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, with diplomatic status as a UN institution, its mission is to help resolve list of global issues, global issues related to Human development ...