METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a product development supporting method and system in which the development of products matched with user's needs and the expansion of consumption of excellent products can be performed by connecting respective persons or a civil network to an enterprise through food and utilizing housewife's word-of-mouth evaluation. SOLUTION: The product development supporting method is executed by a prize site management server 3 connected to a manufacturer side terminal 1 for providing samples for prizes and user side terminals 2 of users applying for the prizes through a communication network N. The management server 3 discloses samples provided from the manufacturer to a Web page as prize articles, and when application information to an arbitrary prize article from the user side terminals 2 is transmitted together with questionnaire information to the prize article, totalizes the received questionnaire information, discloses the totalized result of the totalized questionnaire information to the Web page. When evaluation information obtained after using the prize article from users winning the prize is transmitted from the user side terminals 2, the management server 3 totalizes the evaluation information and discloses the totalized result to the Web page as word-of-mouth evaluation information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI