Building a Shared Present and Future: Learnings from Henry Ford and Albert Kahn’s Co-Wuity Collaborative Innovation Network on the Moving Assembly Line and Mass Production

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to build a shared future through Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) using a historical case study of the timely and unique Co-Wuity partnership between Henry Ford, the automotive industrialist, and Albert Kahn, the Detroit architect who designed and built over 1000 buildings for Ford over 34 years from 1908 to 1942.