NICS Lab is a legitimate and established academic research group at the University of Malaga with a strong history of publications and project participation (since 1994). However, the project submission is flawed: it claims 'everyone' as the audience and falsely states 'most people have used my product' as evidence of traction. The team size (7,500) conflates the university population with the lab staff (20). While the technical and academic merit is high, the submission fails to demonstrate the commercial traction or product-market fit required for a high PoU score.
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