In 2002, Kim Jong-Il declared that " money should be capable of measuring the worth of all commodities ", followed by some small market-oriented measures, and the creation of the Kaesong Industrial Region with transport links to South Korea was announced.

Extraterrestrial civilizations may, as Harrison ( 2002 ) speculates, cause a profound technological and societal impact of a magnitude much greater than the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, and extraterrestrial life in general may give us knowledge of extraterrestrial biochemistry.

Industrial output has gradually decreased from accounting for over half of Taiwan's GDP in 1986 to just 31 % in 2002.

As of September 24, 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 27 % of the value it held on January 1, 2001: a total loss of 5 trillion dollars.

The company operated under the Irwin Industrial name beginning in 2002 when it was purchased by Newell Rubbermaid.

* Henry " Stamped Out Industrial Revolution ", David Derbyshire, The Daily Telegraph ( 21 June 2002 )

* Hamond, F. and McMahon, M. ( 2002 ) Recording and Conserving Ireland's Industrial Heritage, Kilkenny: Heritage Council, ISBN 1-901137-39-2

( 2002 ): ‘ Some simple economics on open source ’, Journal Of Industrial Economics 50 ( 2 ), p 197 – 234

In 2002 NBG merged with ETEBA ( National Investment Bank for Industrial Development ), but NBG's attempted merger with Alpha Bank fell through.

Meanwhile, the Zanussi Industrial Design Center, led by Pezzetta for two decades from 1982 to 2002, became Electrolux European Design Center based in Pordenone and Roberto Pezzetta ended the Zanussi cycle assuming the role of Creative Design Director of Electrolux Group ( 2002 – 2005 ).

* Booknotes interview with Charles Slack on Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century, October 27, 2002.

Mizuho Bank was established on April 1, 2002 by the merger of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank with the retail operations of Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan.

It combined with Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan in 2000 to form Mizuho Financial Group, and changed its name to Mizuho Corporate Bank in 2002 after transferring its retail banking operations to Mizuho Bank.

* Philip Hartman, " Ordinary Differential Equation ", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2002.

The Viterbi School received other major gifts including gifts from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Stevens who created the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation in 2004 ; real estate developer Daniel J. Epstein who named the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with an $ 11 million gift in 2002 ; Energy Corporation of America CEO John Mork who named the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with a $ 15 million gift in 2005 ; Ken Klein, CEO and president of Wind River Systems, who established the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life with an $ 11 million gift, also in 2005 ; Ming Hsieh, founder of Cogent Inc., who named the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering in 2006 with a $ 35 million gift ; and Los Angeles real estate developer Sonny Astani, who named the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a $ 17 million gift in 2007.

* Webb, Paul, David Farrell, and Ian Holliday, Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies Oxford University Press, 2002 online

* M Richardson, Leadership, Mobilisation and the 1986-87 News International dispute, Paper submitted to the Historical Studies in Industrial Relations and the Society for the Study of Labour History Joint Conference, 2002

* Industrial Landscapes, 2002.

* 2002: PB acquired 58 % of ETBA Bank ( Hellenic Industrial Development Bank ) from the Greek government with a view to merging it.

City of Bristol College was used as the location for most exterior shots of the hospital from 1986 until 2002 when a new exterior set was built in Lawrence Hill Industrial Park in the city at.

Conferences have been held inter alia at the London School of Economics ( 1993 and 2001 ), the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil ( 1994 ), the Sapienza University of Rome ( 1995 ), the Université de Montréal ( 1996 ), the Free university of Amsterdam ( 1997 ), the Industrial Union in Turin ( 1998 ), the Bryn Athyn College in Pennsylvania ( 1999 ), the University of Latvia in Riga ( 2000 ), the University of Utah and Brigham Young University ( 2002 ), and the University of Vilnius ( 2003 ).

Industrial Management & Data Systems Volume 102, Issue 5 – 6, 2002, pp. 284 – 288

* Work to Start on Kaesong Industrial Park, People's Daily, November 4, 2002

As a result, in June 2002 the International Industrial Bank renounced its claim to the compensation.

* 2002 – Metal Brigade – performs on " Good Rockin ' Tonight " by Lemmy and Johnny Ramone

The album's first single, " Left Behind ", was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 44th Grammy Awards.

Star One's 2002 Space Metal album mixes space rock and progressive metal, and many of the songs are linked conceptually by having cult science fiction movies or TV series as their subjects.

On April 22, 2012, the band performed Leach's first show since 2002 at the New England Metal and Hardcore Fest.

During this time, SNK licensed game production and development rights for its franchises to several other companies, such as South Korean-based Eolith ( who gained control of the King of Fighters franchise between 2001 and 2002 ) and Mega Enterprise ( who produced Metal Slug 4 ), and Japanese-based Noise Factory ( who is responsible for Sengoku 3 ).

2002 saw the first installment of the Tom Clancy licensed Splinter Cell series, an attempt at a more realistic game in the vein of Metal Gear.

* 23 January 2001 – 11 February 2002: Metal Snake

* Death Metal band Hypocrisy album " Catch 22 " released in year 2002.

by Gonzo in 2002, Full Metal Panic?

* Metal of Night ( 2002 )

Vanderhoof's eponymous band released A Blur in Time in 2002, and he began working on new material for Metal Church's next album thereafter.

In 2002 Saxon released Heavy Metal Thunder, a compilation album featuring re-recorded classics from the band's biggest selling albums.

Metal Hurlant began publishing again in July 2002 by Humanoids Publishing, with a French, English, Spanish and Portuguese version, under the French name.

In 2002, the album was No. 45 on Revolver magazine's " 69 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time " list, and also appeared on their " Must Have Metal Albums " list in 2005.

* Space Metal ( 2002 )

Released on September 12, 2002 in Japan and September 24 in North America, The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 is an interactive " making of " documentary released for the PlayStation 2.

These releases led to an appearance at the long-running Metal for the Brain festival in Canberra late in the year, and in April 2002 Jerk signed to Sony Records.

The project was completed in September 2002 with the release of The Metal Opera Part II.

The band's song " Speed Demon " ( from The Right to Rock ) is briefly heard on the 2002 movie Men in Black II, and appears on Mike Varney's U. S. Metal Vol.

* Star One-Space Metal – 2002

Alternative rock band Wilco references the Landing in " Heavy Metal Drummer ", a song off the 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

* Metal Vibes ( 2002 )

* Flesh Power Dominion ( Album, Metal Blade, 2002 )

* 2002: Avantasia – The Metal Opera Part II ( guitar solo on " The Seven Angels " and " Into the Unknown ")