Young entrepreneurs should be given more support to work for themselves, according to a leading academic.
Prof Dylan Jones-Evans, an entrepreneurship expert, said more students and graduates were seeking self-employment and need help to do so.
Tesni Boughen, 24, left college studies to open a pop-up plant shop, saying she had to take a "massive risk".
Economy Minister Vaughan Gething said start-ups would be "instrumental" to the post-pandemic economy.