Produced by The Northern Way, an economic development agency, the report states how it wants to work with the Commission on Scottish Devolution on areas of common interest.
These include off-shore wind, sub sea industries, energy and high speed rail, as well as on local economic development work in the Borders region.
The report states: "We believe that in the interests of shared economic goals, there needs to be provision for an appropriate collaboration between the national parliament in Scotland (and indeed Wales) and the northern regions, to promote economic development.
"In general terms, we strongly advocate an approach to economic development which recognises the real geography of the economy, and the fact that economic issues rarely respect political and administrative geographies."
Whilst there are some good examples of project based co-operation - for example on individual transport projects and around specific technologies - the Northern Way partnership says this does not seem to be taking place systematically between Scotland and the northern regions.
The report suggests there are significant differences between the English border with Scotland compared with its Welsh border.
"In contrast, whilst some partnership development work has taken place between the north and Scotland through, for example, the Borders Vision initiative, which looked to create a 'single voice' over common concerns and articulate these to national and regional policy makers, there is not a sustained or consistent approach to this work," states the report.
"Of course, the nature of the two borders are very different, with the connections over the Welsh-North West border taking place within the context of a densely populated, urban agglomeration with high levels of functional connectivity.
"The institutional arrangements that are in place have evolved over time around a shared set of concerns, and, with the support of national and regional agencies.
"The Scottish borders, in contrast, are rural, and sparsely populated, with the two border towns of Carlisle and Berwick acting as service centres for their rural hinterlands.
"It would appear that linkages across the English-Scottish border are fragmented, and tend to be project and sector oriented.
"This situation may simply be a reflection of the 'natural' economic boundary and the absence of a substantial functional economic area, but it is an issue worthy of note and further exploration in the context of developing economic and environmental concerns and within the context of changing systems of economic and spatial planning governance on both sides of the border."
The study also acknowledges that there are broader issues of strong concern to people and institutions within the north of England. These include concerns about the unequal distribution of public resources between Scotland and the north; with Scotland receiving 14 per cent higher public spending per head, despite a 13 per cent higher average level of prosperity.