Italian National Research Council
The National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization; its
duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research
activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its
applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social
development of the Country.
To this end, the activities of the
organization are divided into macro areas of interdisciplinary
scientific and technological research, concerning several sectors:
biotechnology, medicine, materials, environment and land, information
and communications, advanced systems of production, judicial and
socio-economic sciences, classical studies and arts.
CNR is
distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes aiming at
promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national
territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms
and organizations.
From the financial point of view, the main
resources come from the State, but also from the market: even 30% of its
balance sheet, an extraordinary result, is the result of revenues
coming from external job orders for studies and activities of technical
advice as well as from agreements with firms, contracts with the
European Union and with the other international organizations.
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Italian National Research Council's Official Website