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| Category | Personal |
| Viewed | 2303 |
| Failure Added | 26-3-2011 |
Winner Jury award OS 2010 - Vredeseilanden - Credit for Cooperatives in Congo
To provide loan capital to cooperatives for purchasing and gathering crops.
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| Category | Society |
| Viewed | 920 |
| Failure Added | 20-9-2010 |
Nobel prize by playing with pencil and scotch tape
In Manchester in 2004, Geim and Novoselov often organized their so called Friday night experiments – a time where they would try out often bizarre ...
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| Category | Technology |
| Viewed | 1178 |
| Failure Added | 7-2-2011 |
Winner public award OS 2010 - Text to Change HIV/AIDS Awareness via SMS in Uganda
To create and distribute an HIV/AIDS awareness quiz via SMS with Text to Change.
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| Category | Society |
| Viewed | 1041 |
| Failure Added | 20-9-2010 |
YACHT
In the 2nd half of the 1990s Randstad Holding set a goal of taking a strategic position in The War for Talent.
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| Category | Business |
| Viewed | 9946 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |
Viagra
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer wanted to develop a medicine for angina, chest pains and high blood pressure – a great intention.
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| Category | Science |
| Viewed | 7016 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |
Vincent van Gogh a brilliant failure?
It may seem strange at first glance to find the impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh among the cases at the Institute for Brilliant Failures…
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| Category | Art |
| Viewed | 3593 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |
Steve Jobs a brilliant failure?
Apple founder Steve Jobs – just like many other pioneers and entrepreneurs – did not have an easy road to success. But, would you call it ...
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| Category | Business |
| Viewed | 4361 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |
Sinclair ZX80, the first affordable home computer
Inventor Clive Sinclair set himself the goal of developing and bringing to market the first really affordable home computer: it was to be ...
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| Category | Technology |
| Viewed | 3370 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |
Scout Rocket Program NASA
The intention was to build a properly functioning rocket as quickly as possible which could compete with The Soviet Union’s Sputnik.
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| Category | Technology |
| Viewed | 6318 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |