Professor Goodwin conducted over $2,500,000 in funded research for StatCan, iSchool, TorStar, RIM (BlackBerry), Christie Digital, RBC, DataTel, and the City of Waterloo, as well as being a co-investigator on a major SSHRC grant (Management, Business, and Finance), Canada Foundation for Innovation - Leaders Opportunity Fund grants, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, in projects that involved over 260 undergraduate students, artists, and professionals over nine years. He was a co-founder of REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity), an off-campus, open innovation lab – in partnership with Christie Digital and Quarry Integrated Communications – that encouraged and supported student entrepreneurship.
Recent Work
David Goodwin and Jill Tomasson Goodwin.“Persist, Pivot, or Punt: The Role of Prototyping in Teams Involved in a Commercial Arts-Led Innovation Program,” in Prototyping across the Disciplines: Designing Better Futures. Edited by Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker and Milena Radzikowska (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2021), pp. 140-164.
REAP (2011-2016). A 5-year, fully-funded project involving Christie Digital, Quarry Integrated Communications, and CCAT (REAP research initiative), focusing on interactive display technologies and applications, and committed to commercializing Arts-based research.
The MicroTile Interactivity and Responsiveness Project. Canada Foundation for Innovation Grant and Leaders Opportunity Fund. (2010-2015). Government infrastructure grants to purchase advanced technologies to support research into new forms of interactive display environments and applications.
Seeding a Lead: An Innovative Approach to Commercializing a Canadian Digital Technology in the Theatre Industry (2008-2012). A 4-year SSHRC research project investigating how a new Canadian display technology might extend both artistic and business opportunities within the Canadian theatre industry.