Proven business models for sustainable, scalable, urban-focused ventures.
UEI Business Profiles provide practical insight into how a wide range of urban-focused businesses operate. Urban innovators can use these profiles to explore business opportunities, understand different approaches, and learn from ventures already operating in the marketplace.
For example, an entrepreneur exploring urban micro-mobility can review profiles of micro-mobility companies to compare their customers, business models, revenue models, competitive advantages, and approaches to creating value. Understanding what others are doing—and what appears to be working—can help innovators sharpen their strategies, identify new opportunities, and reduce risk.
UEI members can explore existing Business Profiles and can contribute new ones. By sharing research and knowledge about businesses they encounter, members help build an increasingly valuable resource for entrepreneurs, researchers, students, investors, community leaders, and others interested in urban innovation.
The result is a shared and growing body of knowledge: urban innovators learning from businesses, from one another, and from the solutions taking shape in communities around the world.
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Select (search) UEI Official Collection to explore profiles reviewed and curated by UEI, or select other collections to explore profiles associated with a particular organization, program, class, or event. You can also manage your own profiles or contribute a new one.