'The Apprentice' boss Alan Sugar is launching a search for teenage business talent for a new BBC One series.
'Junior Apprentice' will feature five girls and five boys aged 16 to 17-years-old, competing for a prize which will be designed for their individual career prospects and worth up to £25,000.
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Commenting, Sugar said: "It is my long held belief that we should be doing more to promote enterprise amongst young people, as the future of our economy relies on them.
"I passionately believe that the key to business success lies in hard work and common sense and that we should encourage our young people as much as possible.
"Understandably, the contestants won't have any previous business experience, but all I want to see from them is an entrepreneurial aptitude and an enthusiasm to succeed."
'Junior Apprentice' will air on BBC One next year; the sixth series of 'The Apprentice' will also be screened in 2010.
