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The frontrunner in the race will unveil a 10-point policy plan when he visits Glasgow on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror has endorsed a different candidate, Andy Burnham, for the leadership.
But the paper urged Mr Burnham to "find a role" in his team for Mr Corbyn, who it says has "lit up the election campaign".
Labour is preparing to send out the first ballot papers to more than 600,000 people qualified to vote.
Mr Corbyn's programme includes a commitment to "growth not austerity", nationalising the railways and energy sector, and a plan for nuclear disarmament.
'Values and ideas'
"I have chosen Scotland to set out the values and policies I'm standing to deliver, on the day the ballot papers are sent out, because Scotland is one of several examples of how Labour has become disconnected," he said.
"Labour cannot win in Scotland without change; and Labour cannot have a path back to power that fails to speak to Scotland.
"This plan of the values and ideas I'm standing to deliver are intended to speak to all parts of Britain, not setting one against another as the Tories have done.
"Combined, they are a new kind of politics: a fairer, kinder Britain based on innovation, decent jobs and decent public services."
Fellow candidate, Liz Kendall, who is polling in last place in the contest, admitted she had "a hell of a long way to go" to convince enough people to back her.
In an interview with The Independent she called for a voting pact with Ms Cooper and Mr Burnham and urged her supporters to vote for only three of the four candidates and not give any of their preferences to Mr Corbyn.
She will go on a 72-hour tour around Britain to try to boost her campaign.
Newspaper backing
Yvette Cooper used a speech on Thursday to criticise Mr Corbyn, accusing him of proposing "old solutions to old problems" and presenting herself as the "real radical".
Ms Cooper told BBC Newsnight there was a serious risk that the party would split if Mr Corbyn won.
She said: "I don't want to see that happen, I can't bear to see that happen because I think there is too much at stake and when you've got families who depend on Labour to stop their tax credits being cut, to say goodbye to power and to the possibility of winning the next election is wrong."
Asked if she would sit in a Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet, Ms Cooper said she would not be able to argue for policies such as the return of the Labour Party's Clause IV.
She said she feared Labour could be out of power for a generation, but would not walk away from the party.
The Guardian newspaper has endorsed Ms Cooper for the leadership.
In an editorial, it said Mr Corbyn had "breathed extraordinary life" into the leadership campaign, while his three rivals came across as "a triple-headed embodiment of the well-dressed, smooth-talking Westminster class".
But the paper said he would not win the votes necessary to clinch a general election - and instead Ms Cooper would be best-placed to take on David Cameron, and perform the "formidably difficult task" of uniting the party.
Mr Burnham, Mr Corbyn's closest challenger according to opinion polls, said it was unhelpful to "second guess" and make "dire predictions" about the outcome.
He said: "I think people are well aware of the issues at stake and I think the time has come to trust the members of our party and the supporters of our party to make the right decision about its future."
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