Ohio SBDC at the University of Dayton

The SBDC can assist small businesses in growing by providing free private consultation on business issues facing the business owner.  This counseling is also supplemented with free or nominal fee training sessions sponsored by the SBDC and its partners.  

The SBDCs of Ohio provide free, professional, in-depth and confidential business consulting and training to pre-venture, start-up, and existing small businesses through its network of 34 centers (including international trade, technology and manufacturing) throughout the state.

Aside from the standard areas of business assistance offered through the SBDC/Client relationship, we offer several specialty services unique to our capabilities through our host partner, the University of Dayton. 

The largest private university in Ohio, UD has been recognized by the Templeton Foundation as one of the nations best at student contribution through service-learning programs. The University of Dayton has also been named one of the country's "most entrepreneurial campuses" by The Princeton Review and Forbes.com. Ranked among the top 100 national universities by U.S. News & World Reports, UD offers access to some of the best graduate and undergraduate student assistance through the SBDC program. In addition, UDRI is the 2^nd largest materials research institute in the nation with several areas of expertise in-house leading the way to future products and applications.

Some of the specific areas of specialty at the University of Dayton include:

• Business
  • Macro-Level Market Studies
    • Competitive Analysis
    • Market Assessment & Evaluation
    • Value Proposition Development
  • Strategic Research & Analyses
    • Graduate Team Projects
      • Market Analysis
      • Financial & Organizational Analysis
      • Strategic & Tactical Guidance
      • Issue Identification & Resolution
    • Specialty Niche Market Analysis
• Law
  • Patent Searches
  • Patent Review & Analysis
  • Intellectual Property Assistance
• Communications
  • Public Relations
    • News Articles
    • Press Releases
    • Promotional Literature
• Engineering
  • Design Clinic
    • Manufacturing Applications
    • Team Projects
• Technology
  • Technology Evaluation
    • Commercialization
  • Research
    • Materials
    • Human Factors
    • Structural
    • Impact Physic