The Scientific Research Council

What The Scientific Research Council does

The Scientific Research Council is a Jamaican government state entity headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, founded in 1960. Its stated mission is to conduct and support scientific research and development, provide laboratory testing services, and promote science within Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region. It operates as a statutory body under the Government of Jamaica, as evidenced by its .gov.jm domain and government_state_entity classification, with no publicly traded shares and no disclosed private investors.

The organization employs between 251 and 500 people and serves primarily Jamaican public-sector and Caribbean clients, though no specific products, services, customer names, pricing, or distribution channels are disclosed in the available data. The council's official website (src.gov.jm) currently returns a security verification interstitial rather than substantive product or operational content, severely limiting visibility into its current service catalog, lab capabilities, or research portfolio.

Because the entity is a government statutory body rather than a commercial enterprise, its revenue model is presumed to be driven by annual government appropriations, grant funding, and fee-for-service testing contracts, but no audited revenue, budget allocation, or contract figures are available in the source material. There is no evidence of private-sector competition, M&A activity, leadership changes, or product launches. The only named individual in the data is founder Norman W. Manley, a historical designation rather than a current operating leader, and no current management team is disclosed.

Name

The Scientific Research Council

Legal name

The Scientific Research Council

Website

https://src.gov.jm

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

The Scientific Research Council is a Jamaican government statutory body founded in 1960 that conducts scientific research and development, provides testing services, and promotes science for Jamaica and the broader Caribbean market, employing 251 to 500 people in Kingston.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Scientific Research Services

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Testing Laboratories and Services (54138)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Science, Technology & Innovation Administration (National R&D Policy) (BPAIAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Research & Science Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAI), Scientific & Laboratory Reference (Chemistry, Biology, Physics; Methods & Protocols) (EDAGAGAG)

Keywords

• Scientific research services
• Research and development
• Testing and analysis
• Technology promotion
• Government research agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Kingston

HQ country

Jamaica

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

The Scientific Research Council is a Jamaican government agency that conducts and supports scientific research and development, provides testing and analytical services, and promotes the adoption of technology. It functions as a national public-sector scientific research institution serving industry, government, and other institutions in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scientific Research and Development Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• SGS SA: Global leader in testing, inspection, and certification services; comparable to the Council's testing mandate but operating at vastly greater commercial scale.
• Bureau Veritas: International testing, inspection, and certification company with laboratory services that overlap the Council's industrial testing function across multiple sectors.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): U.S. federal agency conducting physical and biological research, standards development, and laboratory testing — the closest large-scale analog to a national scientific research council in terms of mandate.
• National Research Council Canada: Canada's primary government R&D organisation; offers comparable industrial research, technical services, and scientific consulting to a national economy.

Others

• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): Multilateral development institution that funds scientific research and capacity-building across Latin America and the Caribbean; potential funding/collaboration partner for Jamaican R&D.

Direct peers

• Scientific Research Council of Jamaica: The subject company's own primary domain; included for completeness as the canonical Jamaica Caribbean government research entity.
• Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI): Trinidad-based regional institute offering industrial research, testing, and technology services to Caribbean industry — the closest direct functional peer to the Jamaican Scientific Research Council.
• National Institute of Metrology of Jamaica: Jamaican national metrology and standards body sharing a domestic scientific-infrastructure mandate with the Council, supporting calibration and measurement services.

Regional players

• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) South Africa: Africa's leading government multidisciplinary R&D council, structurally similar to the Scientific Research Council as a statutory national body performing research, testing, and industrial support.
• The University of the West Indies: Caribbean regional university conducting scientific research across multiple disciplines and serving as a complementary, sometimes overlapping, Caribbean research ecosystem player.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/srcjamaica

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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