Kraków rose one spot to 10th place in the 2013 Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations ranking put together by advisory firm Tholons. Other Polish cities on the list were Warsaw, ranked 36th, and Wrocław, ranked 75th. Only one more European city made it to the top 10 -- Dublin ranked 9th on the list of the best outsourcing destinations. The other eight were all Asian cities.

Kraków outdid all other Polish cities in terms of employment in innovative services, accounting for about 23 percent of the country's employment in the sector, according to the Association of Business Service Leaders.

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