Small Business Services

S.C.O.R.E. (Service Corps of Retired Executives)

Score volunteers represent every facet of the business community. Some have worked as executives at Fortune 500 companies, while other have been entrepreneurs themselves. Score brings expertise from a wide range of business disciplines, as well as the time-tested experience of volunteers who have faced business opportuntites and challenges similar to your own. Score counselors are proud to serve as advisors, mentors and coaches. 
Call: 419-281-4584 ext. 1011

SBDC

The Small Business Development Center located in Mansfield, Ohio provides individual, in-depth and confidential counseling; including training programs to improve skills and knowledge of new and existing small business owners and managers.

For more information call 419-525-1614

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BRAINTREE

The Braintree Center for Business Innovation is a non-profit business incubator, assisting business start-ups and emerging companies in the Greater Mansfield-Ashland area. We focus on technology companies, particularly in the areas of advanced manufacturing, information technologies, biosciences, and international trade. Braintree offers low cost office, manufacturing, and laboratory space, business counseling, customer referrals, access to capital, and training opportunities.  We are part of NEOinc, a consortium of five incubators in northeast Ohio, and we are funded as one of a dozen incubators that are part of the Edison Technology Program and Ohio’s Third Frontier Initiative.  In addition to the incubator program, the center also houses an office of the Small Business Development Center, an International Trade Assistance Center (ITAC), and the Northern Ohio IT Alliance (NOITA), a networking  organization serving information technology professionals. 

For more information click on our link: www.braintreepartners.org

MANUFACTURING COMPETITION

The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Ashland University is dedicated to encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship.

A minor in Entrepreneurship is offered to both business and non-business majors. We provide Experiential Learning where the students apply theory and practice what they have learned in the classroom outside the classroom. Students are given the opportunity to work with businesses in the community to solve real world challenges.

The Student Entrepreneurship Center provides support to students to turn great ideas into reality. Students from any discipline across campus can use the resources of the Center to convert their creativity into tangible enterprises.

The Morgan Center also works with area businesses and manufacturers by providing informative events that introduce entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ideas to the business community. Whether it be nurturing a great idea, developing a business plan, protecting an idea, or finding startup capital, the Morgan Center is ready and willing to assist new and existing entrepreneurs with business functions. The Morgan Center continues to provide up-to-date event topics to assist the students and the business community.

Contact the Burton D. Morgan Center at 419-207-6976 or visit the website at: www.ashland.edu/morgan