Institute - Definition and Overview

An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. Usually it is a research organization created to perform investigations in a certain area. The word comes from the Latin word institutum meaning facility or habit, from instituere meaning build, create, raise or educate.

A non-permanent organizational body, especially in the context of business organizations, is usually called a consortium.

See also: institution

List of institutes

Below is a partial list of organisations with "Institute" in their name.

Global or regional

• European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
• Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
• Commonwealth Institute

Argentina

• Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental

Brazil

• Instituto Adolpho Lutz
• Instituto Butantan
• Instituto Edumed
• Instituto Eldorado
• Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
• Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (IDEC)
• Brazilian Institute of International Trade Law (IBDCI)

Canada

• Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
• University of Ottawa Heart Institute
• Royal Canadian Institute

China

• Beijing Institute of Technology
• Harbin Institute of Technology
• Jiujiang Financial and Economic College
• Zhongyuan Institute of Technology

Czech Republic

• Research Institute of Crop Production (RICP)

Denmark

• Hans Christian Ørsted Institute
• Niels Bohr Institute

France

• Curie Institute
• Pasteur Institute

Germany

• Max Planck Institute

India

• Indian Institute of Science
• Indian Institutes of Technology
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
• Indian Statistical Institute
• Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
• Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute

Israel

• Weizmann Institute of Science

Japan

• Japan Policy Research Institute
• Kyushu Institute of Design

Korea

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)

New Zealand

• Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS)
• MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
• Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
• Maxim Institute
• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Spain

• Cajal Institute

Sweden

• Karolinska Institute
• Royal Institute of Technology

Switzerland

• Institute Le Rosey
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

United Kingdom

• Needham Research Institute
• Institute of Advanced Motorists
• International African Institute
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD)
• Tavistock Institute

United States

• American Enterprise Institute
• American Film Institute
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• American Institute of Theology
• American National Standards Institute
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Beckman Research Institute
• California Institute of Technology
• California Institute of the Arts
• Cato Institute
• Clay Mathematics Institute
• Construction Specifications Institute
• Discovery Institute
• Foresight Institute
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
• Olean Business Institute
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Institute for Advanced Study
• Institute for Contemporary Studies
• Institute for Cooperation in Space
• Institute for Historical Review
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Immortality Institute
• Information Sciences Institute
• Linux Professional Institute
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Institutes of Health
• Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT)
• Rowland Institute for Science
• Salk Institute
• SANS Institute
• SAS Institute
• SITE Institute
• Software Engineering Institute
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
• Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy
• Washington State Institute for Public Policy
• Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly School of the Americas)
• Worldwatch Institute

Vatican

• Pontifical Biblical Institute

Example Usage of Institute