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Scientific research and development: 5,297 active companies in France, NAF division 72

Updated November 7, 2026. Source: INSEE, base Sirene des entreprises et de leurs établissements, on data.gouv.fr.

5,297 active companies on the French Sirene register have a main activity in NAF division 72, scientific research and development, in the stock dated 1 November 2026. 416 were registered in the last 12 months, 23 of them in October 2026, and 2,172 have employees.

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• 5,297Active companies
• 416Registered in the last 12 months
• 23Registered in October 2026
• 2,172 (41.0%)With employees
• 72NAF division
• 3Industries

Registrations in the last 12 months

Active companies by the month their registration date falls in. The newest month is the last full month before the stock date.

Registrations per year

Companies registered in each year that are still active in the 1 November 2026 stock. Companies that closed earlier are not counted, so older years read low.

By number of employees

The employee band the register holds for each company, as declared for its latest reference year.

Industries in this division

By department

A link opens this division in that department where 300 or more companies list it.

Newest registered companies

Newest first. Only companies with a name that is clearly a business are listed; the counts above include every active company. Each row links to the public record.

Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab), source INSEE. Counts are of active companies in the Sirene register stock dated 1 November 2026: commercial companies (SARL, SAS, SA and the like) and civil companies such as SCI property companies. Sole traders, associations and public bodies are not counted, and the register lists dormant holding and property companies as active, so a count is of companies on the register, not of trading businesses. A company is counted under its main activity (NAF rev. 2 code) and the commune of its head office; companies whose register entry holds no NAF rev. 2 code are in the totals only. "With employees" means the register holds an employee band of one or more. Industry titles are English renderings of the INSEE labels. Contains data from INSEE, reused under the Licence Ouverte 2.0. This page is not endorsed by INSEE. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.